OPINION:
After reading Joseph Curl’s column “Ka-ching! President Trump open for business — and making a fortune” (Web, July 8), I too was bothered by the money-making endeavors of our commander in chief since he has been in office.
However, what concerns me more than a person who starts out with $1 billion and increases it one-and-a-half times are the members of Congress who start out with a few hundred thousand dollars and increase their wealth 30 times to 50 times, to anywhere from $3 million to $5 million or more.
Investors know that making that first $1 million or ($1 billion) is a lot harder than increasing it afterward.
I favor passage of the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act to prevent politicians on both sides of the aisle from using their positions for personal benefit.
This includes Republicans, like former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and (especially) socialists, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, who are happy to use other people’s money, but not their own.
RON MUSIOL
Severna Park, Maryland
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