I've always insisted that before people vote, they should go to basic economics 101 classes.

Because of this nonsence of jubilee and cord, we now have set in place a perfect example of a tax and spend gov't.

Sure they will blame devolution, the west, the chinese, nusu mkate, coast title deeds and jicho pevu.

The fact is that we now have have classic spend spend spend gov't in place in the hope that we shall spend ourselves to prosperity.

VAT bill and now kidero. He's taxing everything! The media is mum about this and only mentioned parking...by golly, we are in shit

Rink

That is what governments are for. Tax and spend. I bet none has a savings account

We chose kutenda na kusema ibelieve now live with it


But seriously I hope a byproduct will be denizens that put a govt/ leaders to task on how they spend public resources. In UK citizens are absolutely outraged when their MP fiddles with claiming receipts with even 10 pounds !!! We might get there faster with the current govt thats taxing everything so ruthlessly

Bwana Impunity, these taxes are meant to do nothing other than raise campaign funds and increase the perks to Kidero.

There shall be no extra service offered by these people. None!

They will take the money, offer tenders, and eat it.

What has Kidero done for Nairobi lately?

Are the city council thugs in uniform now better? Have they stopped stealing from parking meters? Have they stopped carrying rungus and trees to beat up poor people?

What Kidero is doing here is done by the Mafia. Only that its legalised.

The central gov't is doing the same.

No country survives endless taxation. I don't care what school of thought one comes from. Tyranny or no tyranny, high taxes hurt the economy and increase corruption.

death and taxes... people you need to understand that money does not grow on trees! whenever someone promises you something you need to ask yourself... WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM!! stuff costs money and government does not have any money of its own. it needs to raise money in 3 major ways.
1. shareholding of businesses (parastatals and companies like safcom... mafuta?)
2. taxation
3. borrowing!

kibaki exploited most of those ones to some extent but borrowed heavily. Uhuru has taken the taxation route! Just hoping mafuta becomes viable soon (hope its fully gava owned) so that we can relax the tax noose.