Alas, with a divided Congress, this is not going to happen. I'd place money on the table betting more Democrats than you might think would vote the big fat no. Congressional ethics is a sham with far too many expecting payback and kickback besides the old corporate pat on the back. It's the good old lucrative insider wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
I've long held that democrats will never actually tax the rich because they ARE the rich. Wait until AOC has a personal net worth of $5M+ some day. That's when the writing will really be on the wall. Post-college liberals would rather vote for a billionaire mayor (Bloomberg) or billionaire governor (Pritzker) than actually taxing a billionaire down to multi-millionaire status. Their "economic populism" of virtue signaling without policy enforcement is all a show folks. It's writing on a dress, nothing more. Dinosaur Feinstein has a personal net worth in excess of $80M. Those physical therapy classes must be half a million a pop if she needs that much cash under the mattress.
I think its more along the lines if they've fix the problem with taxes they've given up their best marketing material. Its kind of like how the Republicans never really wanted to overturn Roe.
None of these people are going to put structures into place that would actual curtail their misuse of office for personal gain or that could potentially provide any meaningful control or punishment for breaking the weak ethics rules they DO have.
Which is why they should not be in a position or have the power to write those rules or determine how they are enforced--but, of course, it would take an act of Congress to change that situation.
These guys really need to be banned from trading individual stocks while in office. Index funds or GTFO.
Travis, TC? ;-)
Alas, with a divided Congress, this is not going to happen. I'd place money on the table betting more Democrats than you might think would vote the big fat no. Congressional ethics is a sham with far too many expecting payback and kickback besides the old corporate pat on the back. It's the good old lucrative insider wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
I've long held that democrats will never actually tax the rich because they ARE the rich. Wait until AOC has a personal net worth of $5M+ some day. That's when the writing will really be on the wall. Post-college liberals would rather vote for a billionaire mayor (Bloomberg) or billionaire governor (Pritzker) than actually taxing a billionaire down to multi-millionaire status. Their "economic populism" of virtue signaling without policy enforcement is all a show folks. It's writing on a dress, nothing more. Dinosaur Feinstein has a personal net worth in excess of $80M. Those physical therapy classes must be half a million a pop if she needs that much cash under the mattress.
I think its more along the lines if they've fix the problem with taxes they've given up their best marketing material. Its kind of like how the Republicans never really wanted to overturn Roe.
None of these people are going to put structures into place that would actual curtail their misuse of office for personal gain or that could potentially provide any meaningful control or punishment for breaking the weak ethics rules they DO have.
Which is why they should not be in a position or have the power to write those rules or determine how they are enforced--but, of course, it would take an act of Congress to change that situation.
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It is to laugh.