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Taxpayers get short end of stick in Treasury’s borrowing binge

Majority of experts feel Kenyans have not been getting value for money for the expensive loans that the Government continues to amass even as it runs out of options to avoid possible default.

There are only two sources where the Government raises the money to pay the police, buy drugs for public hospitals and build roads - you and you alone.

In other words, you are the Government’s cash cow through the taxes you pay in different forms be it Pay As You Earn tax for the salaried workers or from the purchase of different goods and services.

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