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by ta1234567890 1722 days ago
> If we are requiring spouses of elected officials to divest their investment business, we should also require Presidents to divest from their businesses as well, not just wink-wink transfer to his children.

Of course, or some other mechanism.

> In additon there are thousands of elected officials across the country. If we need everyone to abandon/destroy their non-official form of income, nobody will join politics. It is easy to judge from that sidelines.

So you are saying that politics is inherently corrupt and that if you take away the appeal of corruption then no one will participate?

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> So you are saying that politics is inherently corrupt and that is you take away the appeal of corruption then no one will participate?

I've heard rumors that quite a bit before I was born, politics was as boring and stuffy as being an actuary. One can only dream that politics gets boring like that soon.