More taxes will not solve our debt and deficit crises. In fact, it will make it worse, because no matter how robustly our tax revenue grows and no matter how much they tax poor Wanjiku, this administration will always find a way to spend everything it collects -- plus more
This administration is operating on the assumption that there is no way to fix our chronic budget problems without more money. Its main message during every budget day has been that the tax revenues simply are not enough to cover the cost of government. .
That the reason why we have a hihe national debt is because Kenyans have not been taxed enough. That the country is running sustained deficits because Kenyans are taxed too little and/or that there are revenue leakages somewhere. That is a red herring
Our budget deficit and debt crisis stems from the government's persistent overspending and misplaced spending priorities. We would not have a budget deficit problem and, consequently, a debt problem if we did not have a spending problem.
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