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Ruto's haste to introduce more taxes will turn out to be a wild goose chase

President William Ruto. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The resistive forces against the Finance Bill 2024 have been fast and furious. Yet, the country's CEO still fancies some Sh5 trillion somewhere out here that patriots refuse to surrender to the State.

But what for? Echoing the cry of a cab driver I hailed earlier this week, where does this government take all the money we already pay them? How much more will be enough for them to give us a break to pursue our individual and collective economic endeavours?

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