billing the tax system as "the plunder of the people's labor" and trying to mobilize the ordinary citizen's natural discontent toward the state "for his own interests," mr. gatsby is hard at work trying to whip people into a frenzy and incite them to revolt.
first of all, elon musk and a salaried worker are not victims of the same tax regime, let's underline this. the ordinary citizen's income is cut at the source, meaning from their salary, before it even reaches their hands. there's no chance of evasion or avoidance. and because they're forced to consume the bulk of what they earn, they also pay every kind of consumption tax and indirect tax, in full, without exception. they're even exempt…
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