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The ‘New Gestapo’? Maine Gov. Blasts Massive Expansion of IRS Agents

Maine Governor Paul LePage Calls IRS the New Gestapo on Radio

(Photo: AP via Politico)

Governor Paul LePage of Maine is making news for allegedly referring to the IRS as the “new Gestapo” Saturday, after blasting the president’s overhaul of our health care system.

He reportedly said:

This tax will add to the $500 billion in tax increases that are already in Obamacare. Now that Congress can use the taxation power of the federal government to compel behavior or lack thereof, what’s next? More taxes if we don’t drive Toyota Priuses or if we eat too much junk food or maybe even pea soup?

This decision has made America less free. ‘We The People’ have been told there is no choice. You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo – the I.R.S.

Even more disheartening is that reviving the American dream just became nearly impossible to do. We are now a nation in which supports dependency rather than independence. Instead of encouraging self-reliance we are encouraging people to rely on the government.  [Emphasis added].

Listen to the entire radio clip here, via Dirigo Blue.

LePage has a history of making inflammatory remarks, saying the NAACP could “kiss his butt” in 2011, and that Barack Obama could “go to hell” in 2010.  At Maine’s GOP convention in 2012 he told the unemployed to “get off the couch and get yourself a job,” to a standing ovation from the crowd.

Watch the NAACP comment, below:

Maine’s Democratic Party Chairman Ben Grant demanded a full apology for the remarks, saying:

“We’ve come to expect a bunch of nonsense from Gov. LePage, but this is a step too far. There appears now to be no limit to the extreme language he will use to misinform, degrade and insult people. Somebody needs to explain to him that he’s the governor of a state, and not a talk radio host.”

According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS will be adding 16,500 new auditors, agents, and other employees to “investigate and collect billions in new taxes from Americans.”

But is a “Gestapo” comparison taking it too far?

Comments (235)

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  • qjar
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:44am

    Give the IRS a lump of coal(now u know why Obama hates coal) and your money to the Militia.

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    • johnpaulkuchtajr
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:13am

      If the Ayatollah Obama is re-elected, look for the following to take place: A “rent” will be collected from those who already own their homes equal to a sum that they may have been paying AS IF THEY HAD NOT PAID OFF THEIR HOME.

      Read all about a tax revolt at trendsresearch.com. Gerald Celente has been forecasting this possible phenomenon for years and the time may be closer than you think.

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    • mattbowen
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:03am

      John; We already have to pay rent on our homes it is called property taxes

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    • wbedding
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:13am

      as i see it, the Gestapo and Barack have a lot in common. they force people to do things they don’t want to do. they promise to come in and bring prosperity and hope to a ravaged nation, only to destroy it and flush it down the toilet, and they are masters at the propaganda campaign. lots of parallels. like a friend of mine always says, “if it‘s the truth it’s not mean.”

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    • black9897
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:22am

      People need to stop giving these criminals their money. Let’s move towards a society where we can pay voluntarily for services, instead of being forced to pay.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:50am

      JP
      Unless I Am missinformed the tax is already in
      Obama care. Remember we have to pass it to
      know what’s in it.
      Someone can verify that if you sell your house you pay a tax for
      selling ,starting wait for it.——- after the election .

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:57am

      I have paid thousands of dollars during my lifetime In school taxes but I have no children. If I don’t pay they will take my house. I’m not complaining, just giving an example. It is in my best interest that your children get educated just like it is all of our interests that people stay healthy

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:16am

      RGFROMTEXAS
      Pick a couple of Mexicans and pay their health care, and their education, and everthing else their government won’t pay for. Why do you want me to work more (if I can get a job) and get less for some one that doesn’t belong here to start with? But just like every other libral you want me to pay not you. Give us an answer why not pick some and pay??????????????
      By the way your share of property taxs would be a lot less if you did not have to pay for them!

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    • oklahomalady
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:33am

      You go, Governor! Tell the dem freaks to just kiss your butt, too. They think they’re supposed to control everything, including the dialog. They’re so afraid that we peons will hear the truth and revolt. We need sooooo many more in authority who will finally speak up for the TRUTH and OUR RIGHTS!

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:37am

      YOUGOTTABEKIDDING

      Thanks for your reply, however, it was a bit incoherent !!! Maybe I will go back and read it over a few times more and see what I can make out if it !!!

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    • drbage
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:47am

      It’s a tax, no it’s not…if it is NOT a tax then why is the IRS in charge of collecting the revenue? The Constitution gives the power to levy taxes to the House, why is no one questioning the law‘s legallity for the law which originated in the Senate behind the large oaken locked doors of Dreamworks Harry’s office?
      @YOUGOTTABEKIDDING: In Massachusetts, this home sale tax already exists. When you sell your home, before you get the proceeds, the government reduces the amount you get so you can buy the home sales stamps. You pay $4.56/thousand on the sale. Isn‘t it ironic that the state where they revolted against King George’s Stamp Act, they impose a stamp tax for selling something you own and have paid taxes on each year since the purchase?
      You pay taxes and this regime wants you to pay more as part of your “fair share.“ Would love one of the ”fair share“ crowd to explain what is the ”fair share” for the 47/48% who pay no taxes?

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:57am

      Obama has labeled conservative people potential terrorists. Since most of us meet his criteria for a domestic terrorist ,he considers us the enemy….This is a threat I do not take lightly..Heir Obama is well on his way to becoming the next mass murdering communist leader…conservative people had better organize together to strengthen our position and offer a defense against the coming attacks…If you think i wrong, I encourage you to pick up a history book and read..Time is running short and the dictator in the white house is showing signs of madness..Most of our elected officials are weak or are part of the betrayal,they will not help us.The Only reason we have not been crushed already is our right to bear arms..Its now time to organize into groups, the men who are willing to fight back against tyranny..A united defense is our greatest strength…Obama is already organizing his hate groups,OWS,Black Panthers and many other liberal group,that are becoming increasingly militant…The time is now to organize conservative citizens militias ,and send the message to Washington…We will not be your slaves

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    • Longinthetooth
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:08am

      PEOPLE!
      My GOD! OPEN YER FRIGGIN EYES!!! DO you comprehend the concept of “Critical Thinking Skills???
      This Bogus “Theft into Servitude” has been happening for MILLENIA!!!! And it ONLY occurs, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE by the use of OPM (Other People’s Money!)

      Add the Pieces Together;
      CENTRAL GOVERNMENT(S)
      CENTRAL BANKING Let me Repeat; CENTRAL BANKING!!!!! MONEY MAKES THE FRIGGIN WORLD GO ROUND!!!! Money BUYS Leaders. Money BUYS educators. Money BUYS POLITICIANS!!! (R’s & D’s!!!)

      LEARN about the HISTORY and ORIGINS of CENTRAL BANKING (Central Government) and the ORIGINS of the COUNCIL on FOREGIN RELATIONS and the ORIGINS of The BROOKINGS INSTITUTE and the ORIGINS of the Friggin UN!

      LEARN WHO it’s charter members are; Then and NOW!

      Now READ THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELF and UNDERSTAND the REFERENCES to :CRIMSON AND PURPLE (the Colors of “Ism’s and Royalty and the Corrupt Church)
      GOLDEN Calves/ False Idols
      EDOM (meaning RED) and the KING of the NORTH
      The 7 headed SCARLET BEAST that Rises from the Sea ( communism, marxism, totalitarianism, progressivism, Feudalism, socialism,etc.) & The WHORE (debt based MONEY) who causes the WORLD to become “drunk” with her “abominations”
      The MARK of the BEAST 666 > The Wealth of Solomon > The WEALTH OF KINGS!!!

      Seek KNOWLEDGE
      Seek WISDOM
      Seek UNDERSTANDING

      …” and the LIGHT Shines in the darkness, yet the Darkness comprehends it not!”

      In the Name Of JESUS CHRIST!
      STAND IN THE LIGHT (of knowledge, wisdom & un

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:28am

      @LONGINTHETOOTH You are correct.we are trapped in this situation..Are you willing to stand up with me and tell them ..We Will NOT BE YOUR SLAVES.

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    • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:03am

      ………and you are a slave to this gov.. You the moral have failed to be salt and light in this evil world and now you are slaves. The shackles will keep getting tighter until you can not breath. It’s just beginning for the slaves. If you want to be free, stand for Jesus Christ and believe in Him. His Kingdom is free and the only truly free country to be a citizen of. The Kingdom of God.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:27am

      johnpaulkuchtajr
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:13am
      “If the Ayatollah Obama is re-elected, look for the following to take place: A “rent” will be collected from those who already own their homes equal to a sum that they may have been paying AS IF THEY HAD NOT PAID OFF THEIR HOME.”

      I agree, and it would probably be called a “National property tax,” just like the ones on the local level throughout the country, which means if it isn’t paid the homowner will be evicted from his own home, and, if he refuses to leave, armed agents wearing ski masks will come out and kill him and/or his family. Thank you John Roberts for making this possible.

      And THAT tax is surely a rent. Right now we’re required to pay the local Gestapos “rent” for living on our own properties. Taking it up to the national level would add insult to injury.

      “Read all about a tax revolt at trendsresearch.com. Gerald Celente has been forecasting this possible phenomenon for years and the time may be closer than you think.”

      Celente has been accurate in his forecasts so many times it would be foolish not to give considerable weight to what he has to say.

      Revolution is the only way to set things straight.

      It is the ONLY way.

      As Glenn says, “Be prepared.”

      The dominoes are just now beginning to topple in Europe, and they will be heading this way……just as Celente has forecast.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Sounds like someone has discovered the Emperor has no clothes.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Too bad the Maine senators don’t have this resolve.

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    • Longinthetooth
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:49pm

      @ MCDAVE
      Check out my other “replies/posts” and you will see Who I Stand With and What I Stand For;
      In the mean time, a caution to those who “label” themselves as “religious conservatives”;
      You see the mote in the eye of the left but do you note the beam within your own eye?

      Jeremiah 7: 4-11
      ….” Do not trust in these lying words, saying, “The temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are THESE”……(read it all for yourselves)

      Jeremiah 8:4-9 THE PERIL OF FALSE TEACHING
      10) ….”Everyone is given to Covetness;
      From the Prophet even to the priest
      Everyone deals falsely.”…..

      Jeremiah 9:14
      …”but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

      Matthew 23 WOE to the SCRIBES and PHARISEES
      ( the INTERPRETERS of the Word and language(s) in general> Leaders of the Church and the Community)

      Luke 11: 37-54 WOE to PHARISEES and LAWYERS
      (INTERPRETERS OF WORDS > Supposed Seekers of Truth > Community “Leaders”)

      52) Woe to you Lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge.( the MEANING of WORDS)
      You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”

      Isaiah 59:1-15 Sin Confessed
      14) Justice is turned back,
      And righteousness stands afar off;
      For truth is fallen in the street,
      And equity cannot enter.
      15) So truth fails,
      And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

      Cut the Head from the Snake and t

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    • hifi74
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:15pm

      RGFROMTEXAS, There was nothing incoherent about his comment. I would suggest not being obtuse and try thinking rationally about it. Why should I as Joe Taxpayer pay for services for other people that A) are here illegally (read illegal – not legal, against the law, wrong, illegitimate, etc.) or B) refuse to get up and do for themselves. As his comment was alluding to, if you are so hell bent on “helping others” (the merits of such could be argued, as paying for others who can do for themselves or know they are breaking the law does NOTHING to help them in the long run) then YOU go ahead and pay for their services required and stop dictating to others that they have to. Now if that wasn’t clear enough for you, then the problem is you and not myself or YOUGOTTABEKIDDING

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:24pm

      Obama and Hilary are planning to take our guns.. http://www.infowars.com/forbes-op-ed-voices-opposition-to-gun-grabbing-u-n-treaty/

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    • lukerw
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Given the Government prints Money as they Will… When all the people work for the Government… the IRS will no longer be needed to collect Taxes!

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 5:08pm

      RGFROMTEXAS

      As ignorance is bliss, you must be one happy camper!
      Let me see if this makes any sense to you. In my life I have seen the same affordable housing that existed along the route I went to work: built, ripped down and rebuilt several times . They were destroying it while I was paying for it.. It was destroyed by the people that were allowed to live there so kiss my butt

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    • handsmcml
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:03pm

      To johnpaulkuchtajr: If you are paying property tax, you are renting your home from the government already. The government should not own your home, but if you do not pay them off each year, they will come and take it away from you.

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    • Paul
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:16pm

      @LONGINTHE

      Thank God, someone else can see it.

      Gets lonely here at times…

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    • The Giver
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:53pm

      Not giving my money to Obamacare or to a militia. I’ll keep it …thank you very much. Paul LePage is the best darn governor Maine has ever had. LOVE the guy. He drives the libs nuts. 16,000 new IRS agents and we are not to feel that they will come after us if we don’t pay the Obamacare tax? We need to make sure Obama loses his job in Nov. ( last day 1/20/13). Maybe he can go off and work in the UN or something. We don’t need this massive healthcare takeover.

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  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:36am

    When the rubber hits the road, when they demand our money, I‘m sure they’ll all be nice about selling our belongings.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:06am

      they intend to take all of it

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    • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:00am

      If the Maine Govenor wants because He really cares about his voters, the good people of Maine, he has the power to shut off the US gov.. It’s call the 10th amendment to the Constitution of the US. The Maine govenor knows this. He does not really care about his voters or his oath. He’s a phony unless he stands against the US gov. and for the good people of Maine. Tell the US to go blow smoke. You have the authority as Govenor. If you can’t do this, you should be removed from office immediately.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:17pm

      If your Vote for a Representative took All Your Power Away… then you have accepted Dictatorship!

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  • JohnLarson
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:23am

    1% of people will have to pay a $95 fine if they don’t get health insurance and can afford it.

    Comparing that to the Gestapo is retarded.

    If Reagan didn’t mandate hospitals treat everyone in their ER, we wouldn’t have this problem of needing to make up the loss freeloaders take from hospitals and health insurance.

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    • Dougral Supports Israel
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 5:31am

      There is a free market way of strongly encouraging people to be properly insured. Just make it very hard to claim bankruptcy for medical bills if you have no insurance. Then the freeloader that loses his gamble would be paying for a long time to cover his bills. A few instances of that and anyone who has assets or has or wants a job would be lining up to get insurance.

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 5:57am

      The free market hasn’t worked.
      Hopefully this is a start toward a single payer system
      30% of all funds go just to paperwork.

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    • Dougral Supports Israel
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:06am

      @Verceofreason Health care hasn’t been a truly free market for a long time. Employer paid health care has made people think health care should be free (paid for by someone else). The result is escalating costs since people haven’t had to pay much towards their own care. The best solution is to move the costs towards the individual and cause people to make their own medical purchasing judgements like we judge other purchases. Much of the administrative costs of the current system would be saved if people paid their own incidental medical bills and used insurance to pay for only the big-ticket items like surgery.

      If you think there won’t be paperwork costs in a single payer system you are nuts. Look at the bureaucracy involved with Obamacare and that is far from a single payer system.

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    • Marengo Ohio Patriot
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:39am

      Dougral Supports Israel
      I’ll have you know that I pay for my employee health care. “Employer paid health care has made people think health care should be free (paid for by someone else).” It’s deducted out of what otherwise would be my wage!! So that 31% that they pay is smoke and mirrors. It is just money that I do not get via more wages!!!!

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    • bogs8
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:47am

      Hey VerseofMoronland: you really believe when the government gets involved paperwork will diminish? Or our you one of those people who need the government or another entity to make decisions for you because its “scary” to think on your own??

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    • Joe1123
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:51am

      Yeah, now it‘s Reagan’s fault. Got news for ya, we’re going to get rid of this POS on Nov. 6. You can call it our fault then … I’ll gladly take the blame.

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    • bogs8
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:52am

      Larson,

      You want healthcare to be like the DMV??? Its unbelievable how people rely on the government to make them think, act and live. Obama is a joke, has been a joke and has never had real world experience. A community activist who is incapable of a thought minus his teleprompter. How I long for the days of Jimmy Carter. Good ole Jimmy Carter at least has morals.

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    • EP46
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:58am

      @John…that is a TAX of $95 …OR…… 1 percent of the adjusted gross income per adult….
      whichever is greater.

      $200,000..single tax payer the will be $2,000
      $250,000 couple the tax will be $2,500
      $50,000.00 per year your tax will be $500

      The percent you pay will go up each year

      The IRS will have access to your bank account and will TAKE it….you do not have a choice and cannot pay late.

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    • italy2007
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:13am

      How Ignorant you are. Supposedly according to Democrats there are 35 million uninusured that is hardly 1% – and the fine is NOT $95 do your research

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    • nattybrooks
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:58am

      well john maybe your right however now that the national defense preparedness act has been signed eviserating the 4th amendment how will you feel when they decend on your home a la ruby ridge shoot your dog and take your hard earned belongings and imprison you without trial because u made a mistake in the itemization column of your tax return. and you best pray u are not hurt during the scuffle as there are no more doctors due to obamacare. but hey good for you john stand your ground just dont look down or you’ll notice its a crumbling cliff

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    • pianotech
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:11am

      Funny how people who exercise their right to not buy health insurance are “freeloaders” (they’re not, btw..many pay their own bills), while welfare and food stamp recipients are not, isn’t it? 53% of the population pay income taxes that 47% don’t pay, yet it’s the 53% who aren’t doing their fair share.

      Yes, liberalism is a mental illness.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 8:57am

      “The individual mandate will be phased in between 2014 and 2016. The new law says that if you don’t buy health insurance, you’ll have to pay a fine of either $695 or 2.5 percent of your income, whichever is higher. People who don’t earn enough to pay income tax or who, if forced to purchase health insurance, would end up spending more than 8 percent of their annual income, are exempt.”
      http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/prescriptions/2010/04/maybe_the_individual_mandate_is_enforceable.html

      The most ridiculous idiocy soiling this argument is the tendency of many posters to pull facts from a dark, smelly place where only your doctor’s fingers should ever go. $95.00? Hmm… not quite accurate. This garbage would be funny if many of you weren’t so brazen and serious with you minimizations and pseudo-facts.
      My biggest beef with all this nonsense is right or left, R or D, way too many citizens don’t want to be responsible for their health, period. And govt. won’t target fatties, slugs, junkies, tobacco user, etc. Instead, we are all subjected to a “one size fits” all mentality. This is the same foolishness that drives the zero tolerance “war on food.” And regardless of what any individual has done to wreck his or her body, he or she must be “saved.” I call BS. We can’t even get over this hump and promote prevention and accountability. Nope. Throw money at it. The definition of insanity….
      So foolish.

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:48am

      BADDOGGY – That makes you a freeloader
      PATTY HENRY – I would use the “Kool-Aid” reference but that is so yesterday !!
      JOHNLARSON – I found someone I can agree with !!!

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    • JoeInMaine
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:56am

      You‘re joking about it being Reagan’s fault that ERs must treat patients regardless of their ability to pay, right? That’s a funny joke! If evil, corporate hospitals refused to treat you and your liberal friends would LOSE YOUR MINDS trying to fight the injustice and stick it to THE MAN. I can only imagine your level of righteous indignation.

      As for the Gestapo reference. I submit that in the 1930′s Germans thought more highly of the Gestapo then most Americans do of the present-day IRS. What Nazi Germany became in the 1940s, and the “officially sanctioned” organizations within the legitimate government of Germany morphed into (Nazi Party, Gestapo, SS, etc) under the leadership of a madman who began his nations downfall by simply ignoring the laws he disliked, controlled the courts and finally grabbing absolute power should scare everyone today. Even democrats. It’s called learning from the past. You prefer to jump to the wrong historical conclusions with regard to our governor and that’s understandable given his rough edges, but at least that man has never lied to my face like Obama has. Ignoring DOMA, ignoring immigration and drug laws, stretching the Constitution to match his ego, using shady legislative maneuvers to pass Obamacare the VAST majority of Americans despised? No new taxes if I make less than $250k, really? What might we become as a nation under the second term of Obama. Do you know? Are you sure? How do you look in jackboots, my friend?

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    • XScramblerX
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:17am

      @ RGFROMTEXAS

      First of all, BADDOGGY seems to be a true patriot unlike yourself.
      Because BADDOGGY doesn’t want to pay for YOUR healthcare, that makes him the freeloader?
      You are the freeloader looking for hand outs like Obama.

      Obama says you are to stand in line with JOHN L ARS OLE, the one you can agree with, however I WILL NOT COMPLY!
      Pay you own share and leave mine alone you freeloader!

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:21am

      The government allowed the insurance co’s and the lawyers to rape the health care profession . The real solutions lie in getting the government out of health care…Tort reform and limits on liability can correct other problems,health care can be affordable ,when are dollars no longer go to lawyers or insurance co’s…

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    • Endyr
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:37am

      Time to look forward and stop pointing fingers at ghosts in order to deflect attention to the emergency in front of us. In a crisis, you don’t point fingers, the time for that is the After Action Review. Otherwise you sound as ridiculous as those actors in the post disaster shows (pick one) that argue endlessly while under fire.. Deal with this from a matter of status. Obama is fundamentally changing the USA alright, he is putting the finishing touches ON OUR CHAINS. Chains that we will likely not break without significant conflict. Imagine a thousand Wacos and Ruby Ridges all across this country as the new and improved local paramailitary swat assists the IRS with confiscating your property and KILLING you if you resist, just because you can stand another tax.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:47pm

      Verceofreason-We don’t have a free market system in this country, it’s psuedo socialism with all the regulations.

      You want a single payer system? Be prepared to die of thirst in a hospital like they do in England.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:34pm

      Exactly who are the 3-million people (1%) they claim can afford insurance but don’t buy it? I‘d be willing to bet that the majority of people who currently don’t have health insurance don‘t have it because they CAN’T afford it. Furthermore, when did the Federal Government become so intimately involved in my finances to know whether I can or cannot afford insurance?

      Meddlesome Reid, Pelosi and Obama have now increased the taxes of those people who are struggling financially and can’t afford insurance. Aren’t they terrific? They care sooooo much about the middle class and less fortunate – don’t they? (sigh)

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:54pm

      Cykonis; Most of our government isn’t constitutional and should be eliminated. Our military budget will have to be scaled back, federal welfare programs dismantled and the social security ponsi scheme stopped so future generations can live free. Existing social security recipients, and those fifty and over, are stuck with this stupid system.
      The accurate number is 45% of all government spending must cease. But in order to retire the debt, 50% is more practical.
      Only this will never happen because there is absolutely no political will for it to happen! They are about to throw us a long, miserable party, and you had better be prepared for it, because America’s population is about to falter in a very bad way!

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  • Gunnett
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:03am

    1,600 new IRS employess, making $40 to 70k a year plus benefits. It must be his idea of a jobs program, now he can claim that he has created jobs as head of a business.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:39am

      OF COURSE it’s the new GESTAPO! Add that to Obama’s Black Panther type “CIVILIAN ARMY” already trained, uniformed … ANYONE ABLE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THEM in recent months? Only when O first contaminated the WH, then nothing…guess they went underground too.
      The fact that our WEAK CONGRESS has allowed this SOB to shove this MARXIST HC system down our throats and made the non-sanctioned IRS the BILL CHASERS is nauseating.

      SAY, HOT SHOT LIAR IN THE WHITE HOUSE: IF this “tax” or (now you call it Penalty) only effects 1% of the Adults in USA…let‘s say that’s somewhere between 1.8 Million down to 1 M adults that this new ARMY of IRS will go after for fines (uh, taxes, no penalties) that’s about 1000 people per
      Agent to chase down and threaten. OH, I forgot all the UNIONS and BUDDIES/CRONIES and POLITICAL HACKS that have been given “WAIVERS”…
      VOTE. WORK ON GETTING THE VOTE OUT. WE can’t allow IRS guys, who have every bit of our personal information to be able to threaten the American people like this!!!!! THAT B-Tard in the WH
      Says it’s not fair for 15% of the people to be uninsured…let’s see: 12M are illegals (or more); 25M are young adults; 5 million really need health care. The rest would rather have a new flat screen than buy insurance. The solution is so simple: Make everyone who comes into the ER room sign a note if they can’t pay and get something every week/month from them. Pay the insurance for those “uninsurables/th

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    • JohnLarson
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:23am

      Obama has a Black Panther-style civilian army already trained? What are they called, the Peace Corps?

      You’re a raving psycho.

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:29am

      Patty Henry: Comrade, understand that the new SS is run by the State Department and like the old SS are excellent, well trained and equipped, politically steady, troops. You were probably thinking of the Brownshirts, the SA, which was the Leaders (der fueher) origional body guard and bully boys.
      Yes, get out the vote. Yes, vote to change things. But don’t be surprised when nothing changes, because it won’t!
      Oh, they’ll make noises, like Paul Ryans repairing the budget plan in ten or twenty years, but the truth is that they know we don’t have that long. Heck, they have been kicking the can down the road for so long that the darn thing just bounces back at them faster and faster.
      The cure is “simple” cut 50% of government, across the board. Remove all the bad law that the progressives have written during the past century and substitiute real law based on the Constitution.
      And you expect the progressive D‘s and R’s to do this? Really!
      Since you’re being silly, did I tell you about the bridge in Brooklyn I’m trying to sell?

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:53am

      Those agents are going to have a tough time collecting from me. I will NOT comply. They can go F themselves.

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    • cykonas
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:46am

      @HISTORYGUY48

      Great to see someone who has their eyes wide open. I can’t find any reason to be excited about either established party, and haven’t been able to for my entire voting life.

      The only part I disagree with is the 50% across the board cut. I think cuts have to be done in a way that realigns us with the Constitution. For example, the Dept. of Ed. should be cut 100% with all of the overcollected taxes flowing back to the people and the States. The states and communities and people could then take care of education in their area. Education isn’t an enumerated power of the Federal Government.

      Continuing the example I don’t think we want to cut our defense budget by 50%, and national defense is an enumerated power of the Federal Government. I’m not sure what the right number is for reducing the defense budget but I think 1/2 is a bit high.

      But, again, I’m 100% in agreement with your overall points. Neither the R‘s or the D’s have enough guts or belief in our Constitution to do what is needed. Peace.

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  • Z
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:56am

    Hmm.. Night of long knives. History repeats.

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  • nzkiwi
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:49am

    Le Page and Joe Walsh suffer from the same problem. A serious and sensible message being somewhat masked by silly, provocative statements.

    They would do well to take a leaf from the books of such serious thinkers as Condileeza Rice, Charles Krauthammer, and many others. Their message will go a lot further, as it needs to.

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    • firedsilver.ok
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:13am

      The real problem they suffer from is the public’s inability to accept plain statements of truth and understand comparative metaphors. A stupid people begets stupid leaders begetting stupid laws. That is where we are now.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:41pm

      I’ve always like Ms. Rice but am becoming much less enamored with Chuck K. Why write a sequel to books never read however with respect to those 2?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:38am

    This is worse than the Gestapo; this is the implementation of a KGB style IRS, in addition to the thugee thugery of the Homeland Terror Society under Napoletano.

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  • DisposableWorker
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:25am

    Is it too late for this guy to declare candidacy for the presidency?

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  • RamboTheDog
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:17am

    I will not comply.

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  • GibOnFire
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:10am

    That’s why I voted for him. He is the Sheriff Arpio of the Northeast. Go Gov!

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:42am

    Dear undistinguished Ben Grant, piss off.

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  • 9635kari
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:38am

    I am sick of the PC in this country. He hit the nail on the head. Any which way you want to describe the IRS and the new healthcare law, the Gestapo hits a nerve with most all Americans. If Obama wins again, it will be more than the Gestapo!!!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:27am

    ‘GESTAPO’ is right on the mark, everything obama has done to us is exactly paralleling what hitler did in the mid 1930s. auto industry, banks, media, schools…religious and class warfare.. now he has ARMED the IRS with shotguns and is hiring MORE of them. why do you think obama’s brownshirted DHS [HOMELAND security] ordered half a BILLION bullets… obama means to murder every conservative family in America, he will never step down and he plans to win that ‘2nd term’ .. he plans that is for LIFE.

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:24am

    They did not send Al Capone to Alcatraz for murder or smuggling illegal alcoholic but Tax Evasion.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:39am

      O-blame-a just created 16,500 new jobs! Hope and change. Scary.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:13am

    If Liberals actually recognized the Evil that they Create… there would be No Liberals!

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    • WatchingAmericaDie
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:22am

      To liberate means to set free. But the liberals know they don’t really do what their label suggests. It’s like the queers who have chosen to call themselves gay. Liberals (aka Socialists) and gays (aka queers) make me sick.

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  • MCDAVE
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:11am

    Obamacare is nothing more than a tax machine to funnel funds to the Government, so the politicians can steal more money from the tax payers…Our elected officials are leaving office filthy rich off of ill gotten gains stolen from the tax payers…Everything the Government touches turns into a corrupted disaster..With Obamacare they are getting ready to dig deep into are pockets and steal some real money….Government heath care will be a total failure,,just like everything else Obama has done….

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:21am

      And do they expect us to believe that all of this obama-doesn’t- really-care-about-us TAX money is going to be placed in a “lock box” somewhere, the funds of which, to be used soley for health care? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I could laugh myself sick. Oooops… better not.

      I love Governor LePage. He tells it like it is and does not mince words.

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  • MAMMY_NUNN
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:49am

    Gestapo no they will be beating every bush and checking every nook and cranny for every penny they can just wait until you get their bill. If there is no tax create one that is the Dems motto.

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  • shorthanded12
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:48am

    Fat “SIS” over at DHS more than likely will monitor this blog………(16,500 IRS goons) Hows that Hope an Change…Barrys Leaning Forward.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:56am

      I believe America is leaning Forward, Barry is leading from BEHIND. Why do you think he wants gay marriage, so what he is doing is legal.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:48am

    “I looked Puty Put in his eyes and seen a friend.” G. W. Bush
    G W passed the Patriot act.

    Whenever they pass a law or act, always think about “What if the other side has the same powers”

    Now, the “Progressives are in charge, unleashing the new KGB, and I bet Bush would look into Obama’s eyes and say, “I see a friend”.

    “Meet the new boss, same like the old boss, don’t get fooled again.” The Who.

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    • DisposableWorker
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:29am

      Once again Darmok has succinctly summed up the situation. And made me laugh hysterically!!!

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:27am

      @Disposable
      Well, the last term of G W Bush and the first term of Obama, I can’t see where it ends? As far as I can see, we need a reasonable alternative. Not Dem or Reb, but American.

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  • Apetit
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:41am

    that is exactly what the irs is

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  • Wichita1
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:40am

    From US News: The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.
    Written by Doug Powers

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  • riseandshine
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:37am

    Nullification.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:58pm

      AND INTERPOSITION.

      I’m working like hell to get all my friends contacting state legislators telling them to interpose and nullify. Nullify is refusing to obey. Interposing is criminalizing enforcement. 20 states do this and the progressives lose. Let them try to send in tanks.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:36am

    gestapo sounds about right

    and the dems looking for an apology can kiss my …………………………..

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  • NancyBee
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:35am

    Governor LePage……..Do not apologize…………

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:00am

      No one cares hon.
      He’s turned Maine into a joke.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:59am

      VERCEOFREASON, Compared to 0bama making our entire nation an international joke?

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Our nation was made an international joke
      by George W. Bush thumbing his nose at the UN and squandering our treasury
      on 2( TWO! ) decades long unnecessary wars.
      I’m not even factoring the human costs.
      Where exactly do you think most of the deficit came from?

      You are such silly folks.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:38pm

      VERCEOFREASON, From the nation’s give away programs. I believe it is somewhere over 70% of the nation’s annual budget. Well, if we ever had a budget under 0bama, LOL. Oh yeah we did during the first year, only because Bush signed it.

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:34am

    But is a “Gestapo” comment taking it too far?
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    No, the Nazi SS is more accurate, and should be dealt with in the same manner.

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:46am

      Yes, I agree. That Gestapo comment is incorrect.

      In fact, I thing we are addressing the wrong Regime. What we have now is a cross between National Socialism and Communism. Instead of Gestapo in relating to the IRS, I think that goes to the HS (Homeland Security), much likethe SS.

      The TSA is like the Stasi (Staats Sicherheits = State Security of East Germany).

      Oh, well I could go on and on, but whether it’s the Red Chinese, the East Germans, The Soviets or the Nazi Germans, it all comes down to one thing:

      An Obamanation.

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    • burnteye86
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:57am

      Yes, they should be dealt with in the same manner. But how? They’re us. Our OWN government. (I know the answer, but not going to say it here)

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:26am

      @BURNTEYE
      Yes, they should be dealt with in the same manner. But how? They’re us. Our OWN government. (I know the answer, but not going to say it here)
      —-
      Me too. And I HAVE said it here. Several times.

      BTW, they are as much “us” as a freaking retrovirus.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:07am

      TSUNAMI-22 The Gestapo or Geheime Staatspolizei were actually part of the SS and were administered by officers of the Waffen SS.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:38pm

      @ RJJinGadsden

      TSUNAMI-22 The Gestapo or Geheime Staatspolizei were actually part of the SS and were administered by officers of the Waffen SS.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Exactly. What I was trying to imply was that the “Gestapo” term wasn’t all-encompassing enough. It‘s the whole damn governmental oppressiveness that’s the issue. The IRS goons are just one aspect of the bigger picture.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:53pm

      TSUNAMI-22, Sorry to sound like a smart @$$ then. Military history is hobby of mine. I have to agree with you 100% on what the IRS will become.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:13am

      @ RJJinGadsden

      TSUNAMI-22, Sorry to sound like a smart @$$ then. Military history is hobby of mine. I have to agree with you 100% on what the IRS will become.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Not at all. Keep doin‘ what you’re doin’. It keeps me on my toes. I knew when I typed it that I should have explained my thoughts in more detail, but I didn’t think it mattered.

      What does matter is that there are millions of us that are asking the same tough questions about our handlers just like the founders did 200+ years ago. We will arrive at the same conclusion on a course of action just as they did and it will be a 2nd American revolution. I say this because I really think the first Republic is dead.

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