Redstar
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Redstar functions as the implicated corporate antagonist in Josh's argument. The company's giveaway of a huge, tax-deductible retention bonus is used to justify reallocating tax benefits toward college affordability, personifying corporate excess.
Referenced indirectly through the article's reporting and Josh's rhetorical invocation.
As a corporate entity, Redstar represents concentrated economic power that the campaign seeks to challenge rhetorically and, potentially, legislatively.
Redstar's practices highlight structural tax loopholes and catalyze proposals that would shift fiscal burdens and political narratives.
Redstar is the corporate example referenced in the Post article; although not present, its executive compensation practices are used as a rhetorical foil to justify tuition tax reform.
Referenced through journalistic reporting and staff citation.
Redstar represents private-sector wealth that can be rhetorically targeted by the campaign; its practices constrain tax-policy debates.
Redstar stands in for systemic inequality that the campaign can exploit rhetorically; it demonstrates how corporate policy intersects with tax law debates.