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    "id": 282879,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282879/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "My second last point is; how do we increase the percentage of development expenditure as a total percentage of the Budget? It has been Government policy that we increase the development expenditure with a higher percentage compared to the recurrent expenditure. What has happened in the current scenario is that we are increasing the recurrent budget by over 20 per cent and only increasing the development expenditure by 13 per cent. The net effect is that the percentage of recurrent expenditure is going to continue rising as opposed to that of the development expenditure. A country cannot survive on recurrent expenditure. For posterity, a country would rely more on development expenditure. Remember that the Constitution is very clear that the benefits and burdens of taxation should be shared equitably between the current generation and the future generations. We can only be able to share the benefits and burdens of taxation with the future generations if we put more resources to development expenditure, so that those generations to come would be in a position to find resources to enjoy. But if we put resources to the recurrent expenditure, what we are doing, in effect, is to deny the future generations benefits and we are exposing them to liability; we are exposing them to the burdens."
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