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Should all government employees be banned from owning stock?
by kasey_junk 2y ago
Should all government employees be banned from owning stock?
- AngryData 2y agoIf it may be involved with or adjacent to the work they are doing, I would say yes.
- mvc 2y agoYou gonna give them all a defined benefit pension scheme too because otherwise, how will they save for retirement?
- AngryData 2y agoI have no problem with them getting a pension. There are also plenty of other ways to invest your money that aren't putting it right into the stock market. Multiple kinds of bonds, CDs, annuities, etc.
- bigbacaloa 2y ago[dead]
- fragmede 2y agoSo we were meeting with a group of customers in the morning and we wanted to bring doughnuts to the meeting. Unfortunately, one of the customers was NASA, so we couldn't bring doughnuts to the meeting because that would have been too much of a gift/bribe. The rules for rank and file employees already exist, it's the ones at the top that can flout the rules that are an issue.
- Jtsummers 2y agohttps://www.justice.gov/jmd/gifts-and-entertainment#outside https://www.justice.gov/jmd/gifts-and-entertainment#outside You can bring coffee and donuts, those are even specifically called out: > Modest items of food and non-alcoholic refreshments, such as soft drinks, coffee and donuts, offered other than as part of a meal;
- fragmede 2y agoGood to know! I'm a software engineer not a lawyer and it's been roughly 20 years since this incident.