Get you mind around that illogical BS if you can. What Rangel really wants is to get out of his tax mess. If Obama can do it for the Secretary of the Treasury, he can do it for a brother, a democrat, a valuable legislator. What's a little misprision of a felony among politicians.
No, Charlie was proposing this almost two years ago, long before his tax problems, as a way of embarassing the Bush Administration.
For entirely wrong reasons, however, Charlie is right. 100% of the burden of defending America is falling on 0.3% (.003) of the population. You know in your heart that that's not fair.
And knock off all the arguments that it's a voluntary force, and the military professionals don't want troublemakers, blah blah blah. Everybody has an obligation to contribute to our protection. Just by saying your're "supporting the troops" won't cut it as you head on down to the mall.
We need a draft, and the drafting priority will be based on family income and net worth, except for all politicians and their families, who go right to the top of the list.
If they want to run the country, they're going to have to serve it first. These families (Kennedy, Clinton, Bush, Reid, etc) think their families have a right of succession to political office. Well add in a right to military service for them also.