I believe that my topic will be over insider trading in Congress (I know exciting right?). This topic keeps me fairly interested... which is more than I can say about the majority of the others on procon.com, but hey it is the business major inside of me coming out in full spring. The side I am going to be proponent for is the "leave it be and get on with life" side. Although I agree it is not fair to other organizations that are forced to abide by this law, but i am siding with those who believe we should not impose it upon them because A. Congress really is not infested with this problem so its not a big issue, B. The law would hurt the efficiency our already inefficient congress, and if congress were to get slower then the little that does get done would just vanish, and C. There is no real way to implement this plan without making a large mess of things and still not dealing with the problem. So even though I agree it is 'unfair', the costs outweigh the benefits and people can just get over the fact that the 1/3 of congressmen that do trade stocks are make a little over ten percent more on their investments than them, I mean what is it hurting except for feelings? I’m sure the businessmen can suck it up and go find something else to complain about, like taxes imposed by these insider trading congressmen
ya man i read that three times and i still didn't really get the concept... but hey i dont really like politics.. Good luck to you my friend and i am sure you are interested in what you are doing.
ReplyDeleteI learned a lot about this kind of stuff last year. I took an advanced government class which was really good. You have a wide range to talk about. It should be a good paper and pretty fun to read. I like reading about scandals our government tries to get aways with.
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