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    "id": 1254588,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1254588/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, when we passed the tax laws in 2021 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, we said these items needed to be zero-rated and made affordable to Kenyans. This Bill is proposing to remove them from zero-rating thus making them very expensive for ordinary Kenyans. There is a notion which I want to dissuade - that, it is better to tax rich Kenyans more than poor Kenyans. This notion has no grounding in economics. If you want to tax rich Kenyans more, the easiest way to do so is to tax their expenditures or luxuries."
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