WASHINGTON – Maine Gov. Paul LePage got in some hot water recently for likening the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, the dreaded secret police of Nazi Germany. During his weekly radio address, he said individuals “must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo — the IRS.” After an uproar, he apologized to those he offended, “especially the Jewish community.” But in , a Vermont alternative publication, the Republican governor once again referenced the Holocaust in denouncing the U.S. government’s tax collection agency. “Clearly, what has happened is that the use of the word Gestapo has clouded my message,” LePage said at a...
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