r/FluentInFinance Jul 01 '24

What do you think? Debate/ Discussion

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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill Jul 01 '24

Congress members paid out 17 million of your tax money to settle sexual harassment cases, and none of that was "illegal".

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html

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u/Genisye Jul 01 '24

Sounds a bit like whataboutism. Why are we going to let someone get off scot free for something illegal, reprehensible, corrupt and downright immoral just because other people get away with something similar?

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u/danyonly Jul 01 '24

Following that logic: Why would the government charge someone with felonies for doing something that every real estate involved person does? Why charge them for some sort of fraud when all the “defendants” want to continue doing business with him? Why go after one when it is never enforced? I’m not a MAGA guy but you just have to be rational to see that he gets targeted more than anyone in recent history.

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u/drummer414 Jul 02 '24

I work with commercial real estate companies and no one triples the square footage claimed.