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komali2today at 2:44 PM3 repliesview on HN

> discourage anyone with financial sense from running for congress.

What's wrong with that? "If you choose a life in government, you'll never be rich, but you may be powerful" seems like a perfectly acceptable situation.


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jkubicektoday at 3:36 PM

Even the most disruptive proposals in these comments aren't banning representatives from being rich, it's just banning them from adding extreme amounts of additional wealth while in office.

ToValueFunfettitoday at 2:50 PM

It may be acceptable for them, but I'd prefer people who have financial sense in charge of the budget and people who are so power hungry as to forgo money kept as far from governance as possible

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Workaccount2today at 3:01 PM

You shouldn't be punished for being financially intelligent. You are conflating corruption with financial competence.

We don't stop athletes who use the gym regularly from competing because all the guys using steroids also went to the gym a lot.

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