That is a fair point. To that I would say the members of congress are exempt from insider trading laws (why?), and it turns out that many members of congress m

That is a fair point. To that I would say the members of congress are exempt from insider trading laws (why?), and it turns out that many members of congress make the majority of the wealth from stock trades after they join congress. (now, that might be hear-say. I read this somewhere, and I have no good way to verify this).