Congress was Insider Trading ?

I would like to see a law or a constitutional amendment that makes all of Congress subject to the same laws they pass on us without exception.
I would also like us to keep the pressure on until there is retroactive prosecution for insider trading.

‎”The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property…. If you exceed this proper limit–if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic–you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you” — Frederic Bastiat via Lawrence Reed

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, …that the only purpose for

which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise… The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” —John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”

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