House Speaker Mike Johnson said that members of Congress should be able to continue owning stocks.
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
Earlier this year, Johnson expressed support for a ban, citing the “appearance of impropriety.”
Hard no. Govern for us and not for your purse. Represent the people — not yourself.
If it discourages people running, that’s great. We don’t need them.
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
Good. The type of people who would be discouraged by this are exactly the people we want to keep out of power.
US T-Bills only.
And an annual salary equal to the national median income.
If Carter was willing to give up his farm, you can muster up enough balls to stop trading stocks while you’re in office.
And if it discourages people running for office, that seems like a feature, not a bug.
This fuckwad wouldn’t know a conflict of interest if it bit him in the ass or his son found it while searching through his father’s porn history.
I wonder if Johnson is honest with himself about being a vile, corrupt piece of shit. Or if he kids himself that he’s righteous and doing good things in Congress.
When all this is over for maga, he’ll still carry the Trump-sized hand impression up his puppet ass for the rest of his days. History will paint all of them exactly as they are.
Pretty convinced at this point that all these dickweeds are in some kinda shared psychosis, where in their world of entitlement they get to have it all and being all righteous about it because it’s their God-given right goddamn it. Money, power, control over other humans because they never learned how to control themselves.
Buncha king wannabes.
Fuckers be living in fantasy land.
In “Inglorious Basterds” Christopher Waltz plays Col. Hans Landa a villain for the record books. When asked about it, Christopher Waltz says he achieved this by not playing Landa as the evil character he is written as, “because no one believes themselves to be evil.”
In some weird twisted way I believe these Maga believe themselves to be saving the soul of America. These fanatics are so far removed from reality they’re literally delusion in their believes they’re doing the right thing.
But how would stock trading relate to “saving the soul of America”? A lot of their disgusting actions like gerrymandering or bending to knee to Trump could be painted as a means to stay in power and thus allowing them to be able to continue “saving” America. But personal stock trading?..
Something something freedom
You can still own stocks, you just can’t TRADE on insider information, dipshit.
Keep in the indexes like every other schlub has to. That’ll give you a bit more incentive to not sell out your fucking country and ensure a HEALTHY market instead of tilting it every which way in favor of whichever lobbyist is currently licking your taint.
Sure, in a blind trust.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind if they weren’t allowed to even own stocks at all.
I wouldn’t mind that either, but I feel a blind trust for them and all immediate family members is the bare minimum.
“Corrupt politician says politicians should be allowed to be corrupt.”
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
That’s precisely the point. If you need ‘encouragement’ in the form of millions of dollars in personal gain in order to be a government official - you’re not the right person for the job.
“If we’re not allowed to be corrupt, who want this job?”
Don’t let this pedophile protector fool you, the bill states they can only have INVESTMENT accounts like the rest of us have. Mutual funds, 401k, IRA.
They SHOULD NOT be able to trade stocks as they are insiders and that is a felony for the rest of us who aren’t politicians.
Very cut and dry what he is saying, he wants to continue to scam us and do insider trading, while the rest of us struggle to gain 4-13% a year in growth.
Have funds in an index fund but not specific stocks.
I could accept owning stock, but no buying or selling as of the moment you register as a candidate until a year out of office
That’s still a conflict of interest - while it would prevent trading on insider information, it does enable making decisions what will increase returns on your investment.
There’s an entire universe of indirect investments where you’re not directly involved in decisions. That should be the requirement
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
That’s exactly the fucking point. We don’t want stock trading people running for office.
How about we eliminate corruption eh?
If you’ve solved it, please let us know. Nobel in Economics is in your future.
What’s the point of being negative here?
Wasn’t he also the guy that claimed he didn’t have a bank account?
