Comrades! Cast your eyes upon the latest machinations of the financial apparatus! One is told, with a straight face, that the authorities have seen fit to 'refine' the list of foodstuffs subject to a preferential Value Added Tax. Madam Memruk, a servant of the accounting guilds, informs us that as of the first of July, the list of goods taxed at a mere ten per centum shall be altered.

Let us peel back the curtain of this bureaucratic farce. The bourgeois state, in its infinite greed, has decided to cast out milk-substitutes, spreads, and various creams, jellies, and puddings from the protected list. They strip away the crumbs of relief from the tables of the working class, while simultaneously permitting certain canned preserves and freeze-dried provisions to enter this privileged circle.

Is this not a classic gambit of the monopoly? They shuffle the labels of 'social significance' to mask the cold reality of exploitation!

Recall, if you will, the treachery of the early year: the standard tax rate was hiked from twenty to twenty-two per centum. Furthermore, the threshold for payment was slashed from sixty million to a mere twenty million rubles, tightening the noose around the neck of the small producer, forcing them into the maw of the great capital. While they boast of preserving a ten per centum rate for children's wares and books, it is but a wretched pittance—a mere distraction to keep the proletariat quiescent while the usurers and tax-collectors feast upon the labour of the masses.

Behold the mechanism of the state: it pretends to offer 'concessions' while the overall weight of the fiscal yoke only grows heavier. The bourgeoisie does not give; it merely rearranges the method of extraction!