“I tell you this story because I think in our day and time, there is no analogy to that horrific action [the Holocaust]. But only to say, we are seeing eclipsed in front of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away. It is this disenfranchisement that I think we have to answer to.”

Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax issue
MSNBC
2011-04-30
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42836858/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
2001-05-01
comparing the next generation paying high taxes to the Holocaust
2010s

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