The voices are starting to be raised about all of the tax cheats in D.C.

"It’s the same old story for Rangel, who last year reluctantly acknowledged what he described as an inadvertent failure to report $75,000 in rental income for a beachfront property in the Dominican Republic. Then, many critics—including this page—called on him to step down from his chairmanship, at least until his professed innocence could be established. He didn’t.

Now, it gets worse. Newly-filed disclosures show that Rangel failed to report at least half a million dollars in assets in 2007. They also show that his net worth is between $1 million and $2.5 million, or about twice what he claimed in 2008."

From today's Buffalo News (certainly no beacon of conservatism) editorial that urges House Ways and Means Committee Chairman (which means he is in charge of writing the nation's tax laws, for Pete's sake) Charlie Rangel to do the honorable thing and resign before any more disturbing news about his numerous financial ethical lapses leaks out.

Why is it always that the people who are the most eager to confiscate more and more of our tax dollars for their doomed social engineering experiments ("Turbo-Tax Tim" Geithner, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Rangel, etc.) never seem to get around to paying their "fair share" themselves?