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spc476 on Dec 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A realization of why email is critical infrastruct...

But until relatively recently (2018 perhaps?) Congress was legally allowed to profit with insider trading (probably due to Article I, section 6, paragraph 1 of the Constitution).

Bud on Dec 30, 2021 [–]

Sure. My point is that we should pay Congress more so that they have less incentive for wrongdoing of various kinds.

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