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CMV Any hint of regulatory capture should bankrupt the politician, company, or (insert industry) group involved. End of discussion.

It's a reality few seem to accept. I don't care if you're a politician who's worked on the Hill for 20 years. I don't care if you're a staffer who got out after 25 years because you couldn't get a raise so you decide to go private. I don't care if you're, say, Ajit Pai who *it just so happens* used to work as a lobbyist for the very same people you're now trying to help. Bankruptcy. Morally, socially, financially, I really don't care. Make your employment in the District outside of as a street cleaner essentially obsolete.


If your new job has **ANY** relation to your former profession or goes anywhere near Capitol Hill there should be an independent government body (think an ethics commission with financial advisors, judges, political analysts, former peers) to decide whether or not you should be admitted- essentially- "back in". With a legal requirement to deny at least 90% of cases involving former high level staff, Congresspersons, or industry professionals. 


This idea that we need industry professionals isn't a bad one, I recognize and accept the concept. The problem isn't so much that industry professionals come in and politicians lobby for industries (that's definitely part of it though), so much as it is with American culture. Greed. There's no cohesion anymore. Everyone's at each other's throats ESPECIALLY on the Hill, and in various departments. There's no sense of national obligation or any kind of common interest at the federal level. Individual states maybe, but even then you have situations like Kansas and Connecticut.


My ideal solution would be to unilaterally ban anything resembling regulatory capture. Industry professions could come on as advisors sure but in no way would they ever be allowed to vote on matters within- say, 60 years of employment. If their advising leads to a vote, the voting member must disclose how, why, where, and who made them come to their conclusion (if its a personal choice they can obviously just say that but this is in cases where an advisor meets with a lawmaker or voting member of a committee). 


Bankrupt the companies if they break the regulations. Incorporate higher ethics standards and ACTUALLY ENFORCE THEM. This is an issue that seems to only really happen in America. As authoritarian as someone like Putin or Viktor Orban are **they at least attempt to care about the people they are beholden to**. Singapore under Lee Kwan Yew is another prime example of this, and a much more accurate less grandiose example as the one I am proposing.
gpt
So in other words: If you have *any* idea what you’re talking about, you can’t get a job making decisions. You want to head the FAA? Better have literally zero experience in the field of aviation! Want to be an SEC commissioner? If you know anything at all about financial markets, you can’t have a job regulating them. Why would you ever want nuclear engineers who understand how nuclear power plants work making regulatory decisions about nuclear power plants? If someone says a doctor is incompetent, it should clearly be a bunch of bus drivers deciding whether or not they keep their license.

And for Congress? Members of Congress vote on things affecting all industries. So if you want to be in Congress, you have to have literally never been employed by anyone in your entire life, except maybe as Congressional staff. Are you starting to see why this policy is absolutely absurd?