[Tax-chick]

This last is, in fact, literally true, if one accepts the Genesis account. First, Joseph charged the fellahin cash for the stored grain. Then he took their farm animals in trade. Then he made them sign over their land to the government, thus eliminating secure private ownership of land in Egypt up to the present day.

He was a swindler of (pardon the phrase) Biblical proportions. It’s a good thing nobody in the Obama administration reads the Bible!

[patton]

Wow - I did not know that.

[aruanan]

First, Joseph charged the fellahin cash for the stored grain. Then he took their farm animals in trade. Then he made them sign over their land to the government, thus eliminating secure private ownership of land in Egypt up to the present day.

He purchased their land in exchange for food (business). He didn't seize it by edict (Obama and the U.S. government). Besides, you've made a bit of an error here. Signing over land in one's possession now isn't the same as signing over all land one might possess in the future or signing away one's ability to ever possess land.