<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kcdev</author><text>The STOCK Act is supposed to prevent this. But the same politicians who passed the law and had the media cover it as much as possible, then later quietly passed another that the law would not be enforced.</text><parent_chain><item><author>takeda</author><text>Instead of fixating that Pelosi made more than others I think right question is, why someone who actually can impact stock options and also has information not available to the public is allowed to trade?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pelosi and a lifetime of trading</title><url>https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tharne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve often wondered about this. It&amp;#x27;s mind boggling that this is allowed. A congressman can short oil stocks and the very next day propose a large tax on oil producers then promptly cash out, and be completely within the bounds of the law.</text><parent_chain><item><author>takeda</author><text>Instead of fixating that Pelosi made more than others I think right question is, why someone who actually can impact stock options and also has information not available to the public is allowed to trade?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pelosi and a lifetime of trading</title><url>https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi</url></story>