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Naming laws after people who did bad stuff you're trying to legislate away or their victims is at least a hundred years old. Only a rabid partisan would compla
by potato3732842 1y ago
Naming laws after people who did bad stuff you're trying to legislate away or their victims is at least a hundred years old. Only a rabid partisan would complain about a law about insider trading being named after one of the politicans most notorious for it.
Personally I think they names should be more humorous and creative but I think this one is way, way better than stupid contradictory names like the PATRIOT act.
- walls 1y agoThere are nine members of congress who trade more profitably than her, but for some reason certain people use her as the poster child for this problem.
- potato3732842 1y agoShe became the poster child for it because she's the daughter of a politician who did the same sort of thing. She's a poster child for "evil congress lizard" the same way that the Kochs and Soros and Murdoch are poster children for "evil billionares" even though there's richer ones.