Maine Gov. Paul LePage doubled down today on his comments comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, saying the agency is "headed" in the path of the Nazi secret police.
LePage, a Republican elected in 2010, first compared the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo in his radio address last week about the Supreme Court's health care ruling. He issued a statement Monday that he didn't intend to insult anyone or minimize the deaths of Jews during the Holocaust.
In his attempt to clarify his remarks today at a campaign event in Vermont, Le Page didn't exactly retract what he said.
"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. Maybe the IRS is not quite as bad -- yet," Le Page said.
"They're headed in that direction," the governor added, according to a story in the Portland Press Herald.
What's with the heated rhetoric? The Supreme Court's decision that President Obama's health care law is constitutional because it falls under Congress' authority to tax has provoked this kind of fiery talk.
A new Quinnipiac Poll shows a majority of voters say the health care law amounts to a tax increase.
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