Tlaib: Congress Shouldn’t Be Able to Trade Military Stock and “Profit Off Death”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) has called for a ban on defense contractor stock trading within Congress, saying it’s wrong that lawmakers are able to personally profit from approving hundreds of billions of dollars to fund militarism in the U.S. and across the world year after year. In an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press, Tlaib said it is “incredibly disturbing” that Congress has passed yet…

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