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    "id": 955122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "I believe in progressive taxation, but it is as well as good as regressive. The only difference is the units of addition. If it is reasonable, it works. But if it does not, it kills the whole thing. Even fumigation is to be taxed. This is interesting. We are not going to be a rich nation by dipping our fingers in every income we see. That will not help anybody. What is going to help is to tax less, let people make money because they are going to pay taxes anyway in other spheres. That is how economy is developed. It is bottom-up. It is never top-bottom. The idea that you collect so much water into a can which is leaking; it will never be filled. We should seal all the loopholes in the taxation process. Also, let us tighten the noose so that those who evade tax can have no room. Otherwise, we have a lot in this country. The only thing is that we make unrealistic budget to begin with and then there is a lot of wastages and theft. If we can seal all those, then we do not need to go for Amina, Anyango and Wanjiku. Let them also have some room to grow. In fact, we should measure our development not in terms of taxation, but in terms of small income where each household can be having an increased income. Right now, in my constituency, because that is what I know very well and it is a replica in many constituencies The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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