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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Given that he is not facing criminal charges, he should be required to pay back taxes, which is what the committee recommended in its findings, along with being censured.
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Since when is tax evasion not a crime? Note that one of the reasons Charlie Rangel was before this committee was for not paying taxes for some 17 years? How far do you think that you or I would get if we suggested to the IRS auditor that we pay only back taxes with no interest or penalties?
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
So you think the House should ignore its own standards and Rangel should be held to a higher standard than any previous Member of the House who faced ethics charges and be expelled w/o having been found guilty of criminal offenses.
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If you're going to be serious about draining the swamp, as Nancy Pelosi claimed she was going to do, then there's no time like the present to do more than have Charlie stand before his peers and get a toungue lashing