If the Tax Man Doesn’t Follow the Law, How Can We?

The Wall Street Journal has an outstanding editorial piece detailing how corrupt the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is, and how he overlooked at least a half-million in assets on his 2007 financial disclosure form.  Not to be outdone by overlooking his own massive investment portfolio, he also failed to pay property taxes and has been abusing four rent-control apartments in Lenox Terrace.  If the people that write our laws cannot be bothered to follow the laws, how can we be subject to those same laws?