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Maine Gov. LePage: IRS ‘heading in the direction’ of the Gestapo

For the second time in seven days, Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) compared the IRS to the Nazi secret police force. “What I am trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and, frankly, I would never want to see that repeated,” he told Seven Days…

Maine gov. on ‘Gestapo’ Obamacare: ‘Be goddamn mad at the federal government’

Maine’s Republican governor says that anyone who is upset because he said that President Barack Obama’s health care reforms would turn the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into Nazi secret police should “be goddamn mad at the federal government.” During a weekly radio address on Saturday, Gov. Paul LePage complained that…

Maine Gov. LePage: IRS ‘the new Gestapo’ because of Obamacare

Maine’s Republican governor, Paul LePage, compared the Internal Revenue Service to Nazi Germany’s secret police force during a weekly radio address on Saturday. The governor was criticizing President Obama’s health care reform law, which requires most individuals in the United States to obtain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty.…