Lawmakers should be ABSOLUTELY banned from trading individual stocks. Lawmakers rule the country, meaning if they buy individual stocks they will try to manipulate decisions to benefit their stock.

Your argument assumes that lawmakers are still ordinary people, but that's a completely unfeasible option considering the fact that as defined by the Cambridge dictionary, lawmakers are "someone, such as a politician, who is responsible for making and changing laws". This is clear evidence that the average man who owns stock and a lawmaker are not the same. In addition, allowing lawmakers to buy stock would cause massive changes in the market due to massive stock buys at a time, since allowing the 535 lawmakers in the United States, each with a salary of $174,000 a year, to buy stock could possibly result in agreements and mass buys to maximize each lawmaker's earnings

It doesn't take much knowledge to understand that my opponent's point is absolutely invalid due to the fact that anyone can understand that it's not about attacking their personal character. It is all about how power works. We build constitutional checks and balances specifically because people in power are usually corrupt. Expecting lawmakers to earn our trust through transparency, rather than giving it to them is just good social and political awareness.