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What's common between India's auto industry & the hen that laid golden eggs

The Twitter user said the farmer in this case was the Central government, the hen was the auto industry, and the egg was the goods and services tax

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Moral of the story?

A Twitter follower has drawn an analogy between the state of the auto industry in India and the fable about the hen that laid golden eggs. The story went something like this: A farmer had a hen that laid golden eggs, but only one a day. The farmer killed the hen in his greed to get all the eggs at one go, but, of course he couldn’t. The Twitter user said the farmer in this case was the Central government, the hen was the auto industry, and the egg was the goods and services tax. According to