{"id":1242254,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1242254/?format=json","text_counter":944,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Okiya Omtatah","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I have heard people commenting on the Finance Bill during these submissions. I am sorry to say that in terms of developing a country, it amounts to arrant nonsense. No country has been developed through taxation. When you tax farm inputs, and cotton is an agricultural crop, what do you aim to get? It is failure. When you tax petroleum, so that the cost becomes too high, what do you aim to get?"}