lol that’s amazing. We should still impeach and remove right after the NHTSA regs are dry.

Maybe… Congress gets very little done in terms of ethics reform. Stock trading has been discussed for a decade at least without action. If there is some overreach coming, it’s not apparent to me right now, based on public discourse.

Your point about an aggressive public is good, but..

(1) The public is authoritarian in a lot of ways. That’s why we elect more intelligent people to make enlightened laws and rules.

(2) I suspect that the public respects rights more when it’s about phone calls or travel, rights we all exercise.

I don’t 100% understand your point here.

Public officials are constrained from exercising some rights. Senators can’t serve on corp boards. House members can be on boards if they aren’t “compensated” 👋 Rep Chris Collins.

Banning stock trades is along those lines. How do you feel about board bans?

There are big communities (i.e. Vanguard/Bogleheads or Dave Ramsey) that argue against individual stocks.

Right or wrong, these ppl mostly trash stock investing except for subject matter experts or corrupt officials. Unless a member is an SME, people will wonder why they trade individual stocks.

It seems like the public could be sympathetic to liberties that the public broadly exercises. Almost all uses a phone and travels now and then.

~60% of US invest in equities, mostly via funds. ~20% invest directly in individual stock. The public might view stock investing as a luxury or option.

If people won’t pay their tickets, cops could send the repo truck to pick up the car and then auction it to pay off the tickets. County treasurers foreclose on RE with unpaid property taxes, but Americans are extra weird about cars.

This is a motivation issue, not some impossible challenge.