Stop Congress from Trading Individual Stocks

Members of Congress should be devoting their entire attention to improving the lives of all Americans, not just their own.

Members of Congress have access to information not available to the general public and make laws that can favor or hurt an industry or company. They should not be trying to personally profit off these advantages by taking stakes in individual companies that can benefit based on their actions or non-public knowledge.

Members of Congress should never profit or be perceived to be profiting off of their work in Congress.

Members of Congress can still participate in the stock market during their years in Congress by only holding Index Funds that match the stock performance of the S&P 500. This will align their personal goals, improving the overall economy, rather than a specific company, with the overall goals of the American people.

Members of Congress need to be more concerned with the American economy than their own personal financial gains.