Remember Joseph taxes a portion of everyone’s harvest during the years of plenty, then makes them trade away their land and possessions in order to buy grain during the years of famine. In doing so he reduces everyone to slavery.
Maybe this Jefferson quote is more applicable to the story of Joseph.
“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy.”