Stinks, doesn't it? In truth, the figure may well be higher if the <cough> public servants in question own ETFs or trusts in which certain stocks are minor holdings. That said, I don't believe that holdings worth less than, say, $½million are likely to turn the dial for them.

and if we interdict members of congress to own stocks they will transfer it to their kids brother/sister or cousins--same results

How have @SpeakerPelosi @RepMaxineWaters @SenFeinstein become so RICH? Seems any easy question to investigate and answer if ANY Journalist or Politician genuinely wanted an answer.

People will keep voting for this because they only pay attention to smooth rhetoric and never look at what these politicians actually do.

"When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat

you know this is happening with pharma, too. where is 2019 marianne who was fearless in calling out pharma? why has covid silenced you on the opioid-mRNA gangsters running our planet?

We can change it anytime we like, no permission required. #DirectDemocracy

I agree 100%!

Underneath everything corrupt in govt is the money. Until we eliminate all incentives to be an elected "Public Servant" we can never be a true democracy.

Can we stop calling them "defense contractors" and instead call them "death manufacturers" or something?