The other side gets wrong that a stock ban removes the conflict. It mostly relocates it. A lawmaker can still load up on sector ETFs, options, crypto, or a family account, and a blind trust still requires someone to choose an allocation that a committee can move. Their point about after-the-fact disclosure is fair, but that's an argument for stronger disclosure, not prohibition: real-time reporting, pre-clearance, and AI that matches trades to votes catches the clever stuff a ban never will. In the coming decades, markets will keep inventing instruments faster than lawmakers can write bans. Regulate the abuse, not the asset.