"the moral thing to do"

The Wall Street Journal published an article about Charlie Rangel chairman of the Ways and Means Committee:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970203946904574300013592601036.html

This article describes Charlie Rangel’s various violations of federal tax reporting, New York housing assistance rules and Washington DC real estate tax rules. The following are some of the highlights:

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  Ever notice that those who endorse high taxes and those who actually pay them aren’t the same people? Consider the curious case of Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, who is leading the charge for a new 5.4-percentage point income tax surcharge and recently called it “the moral thing to do.” About his own tax liability he seems less, well, fervent.
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  Mr. Rangel soon admitted having failed to report rental income of $75,000 over the years. First he blamed his wife for the oversight because he said she was supposed to be managing the property. Then he blamed the language barrier. “Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they’d start speaking Spanish,” Mr. Rangel explained.
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  Besides not paying those pesky taxes, Mr. Rangel had other reasons for wanting to hide income. As the tenant of four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, the Congressman needed to keep his annual reported income below $175,000, lest he be ineligible as a hardship case for rent control. (He also used one of the apartments as an office in violation of rent-control rules, but that’s another story.)
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  The National Legal and Policy Center also says it has confirmed that Mr. Rangel owned a home in Washington from 1971-2000 and during that time claimed a “homestead” exemption that allowed him to save on his District of Columbia property taxes. However, the homestead exemption only applies to a principal residence, and the Washington home could not have qualified as such since Mr. Rangel’s rent-stabilized apartments in New York have the same requirement.

Yes you read that correctly Charlie Rangel lives in a rent controlled apartment in New York. How about Charlie’s comment about the language barrier causing him to understate his income? When he was having these conversations why not just "press 1 for English"?

It is unlikely that the registered voters in Charlie Rangel’s 15th congressional district would ever vote him out of office. There is one avenue for Charlie to be removed from office:

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  The House Ethics Committee is investigating Mr. Rangel on no fewer than six separate issues, including his failure to report the no-interest loan on his Punta Cana villa and his use of rent-stabilized apartments. It is also investigating his fund raising for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York. New York labor attorney Theodore Kheel, one of the principal owners of the Punta Cana resort, is an important donor to the Rangel Center.

Email the members of the House Ethics Committee. Let them know that you expect a hearing on Charlie Rangel to begin soon. Also let them know that if the charges against Charlie Rangel are true then you expect the Committee to recommend expulsion from congress as punishment.

For more details on the Charlie Rangel scandal, view this website: http://www.nlpc.org/