During the seven years of famine in ancient Egypt, Joseph kept the people alive by first selling the stored grain to them. Then when their money ran out, he sold them food in exchange for their livestock. Finally when the people had nothing left but their bodies and their land, they sold their lands to Pharaoh and themselves into slavery in order to survive. Joseph then allowed the people to remain in their land and to grow food there and to pay 20% of all they produced to Pharaoh who owned them and their land.
When the people of the united States pay more than double that percentage in homage to Augustus with little complaint, what does that tell us about the "Land of the Free"?
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