MCs from Both Sides Dip Into Taxes for Vacations

This article describes how MCs from both parties enjoy mixed business-pleasure trips funded by others. I opine that this is not a substantial problem unless taxes are used to pay for more than a small portion of the trip such as passport fees. Such instances as the ones mentioned in the article should be grounds for recall, but the insidious way in which MCs tie such trips into anything and everything related to their legislative duties, such as lobbying other possible players in implementing and enforcing the bills, prevents members of the House Judiciary Committee and most others from thinking it to be a grievous offence, especially compared to other behaviors of elected officials that have not been punished (such as misleading the public on life-or-death matters).