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Bettie

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15. I can see both sides of this argument
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 01:55 PM
Aug 2025

First, I absolutely think that we need to get rid of Citizens United and the ability for congresscritters to trade individual stocks.

Curtail lobbying significantly. We don't need congress owned by Wall Street, Fossil Fuels, Banks, Tech, and others. We don't need lobbyists for foreign nations interfering in our elections.

Those things will get some out of office, simply because they could no longer use their position to do insider trading and increase their personal wealth.

But term limits...I can see the logic of arguments both for and against them. I mean, Chuck Grassley has been in office since 1980. I am 59 years old, I was just starting high school then.

Maybe, if we could get the BIG money out and let candidates be themselves rather than trying to become whatever the consultants tell them to be, things would probably improve a lot.

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