Free?

Accord­ing to the Book of Gen­e­sis, Pharaoh took one part of five of all that the peo­ple on the lands of Egypt pro­duced, and the peo­ple kept four-fifths, and these were the con­di­tions of slav­ery. Today the gov­ern­ment takes two-fifths and we call it freedom.

I’m not even say­ing it’s wrong, but it gives one pause.