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    "id": 602017,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/602017/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2679,
        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
        "slug": "george-oner-ogalo"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, if you make taxes very high, you discourage people from paying them. In those circumstances we, as parliamentarians, are the union of taxpayers. That is why there is a statement that there is no taxation without representation; we are part of representation. When we pass the Finance Bill every year, we raise revenue by taxation. When we pass the appropriations Bill and the Budget every year, we apply those funds. When we apply the funds that we have raised from the people, we rely on the Executive to apply those funds to help the taxpayer access services. If the taxpayers do not use money to access services, we fail the taxpayers. I want to say that this Bill is important. It is going to help manage the way we relate with KRA as citizens. It should also go far to ensure that the tax net is wide enough so that the tax rates can go down. We will then meet the tax targets that we need to raise. This country is great and can go very far. During the Moi regime, the highest budget ever was Kshs.240 billion. Out of that amount, Kshs.48 billion was being used to pay debts. During Kibaki’s time, when he left power---"
}