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Tax hikes can't satisfy thieves' greed or plug holes of wasteful spending

Like a running stomach, no single individual, business or government can escape the wrath of fiscal indiscipline. Not long ago, this column argued that what we have in this country is not a problem of revenues to warrant the toxic taxes and levies of the Kenya Kwanza administration. There will never be enough revenue collections to satisfy the greed of thieves and wasteful entitlements of any government built on kleptocracy.

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