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    "content": "goods used by the middle class and the wealthy to provide subsidies for our farmers when it comes to fertilizers and even to create social security. If we charge VAT and get something from the wealthy and the middle class and provide more social security like a universal health care for Kenyans, then we will be going in the right direction. If a jobless Kenyan on the streets can walk to a clinic and get treated when he falls sick, that is what nation building is all about. Fundamentally, the Jubilee Government has realized that you tax the rich, the wealthy and the middle class and reduce the gap between the poor and the rich. You also need to provide free sanitary towels to all the poor girls in this country and build infrastructure. Insecurity is high in our country. I support the Committee in terms of exempting unga, sugar and bread from the VAT. If you look at milk, 80 per cent of the rural Kenyans use unprocessed milk. So, if milk in the supermarket is taxed and the tax money is ploughed back to provide social security, we are going to improve the livelihood of our people. We will be able to construct more schools, health centres and provide social security. I am sure the Jubilee Government will bring a social security policy document to show how the common poor Kenyans are gaining from that. I support."
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