There is a lot of exorbitance at the helm of power. Our taxation base is thin, and for an understandable reason, but we have to acknowledge the wastage up there.
The government cannot be inducing taxes and squelching revenue to the last cent on one hand; and overlooking the expenditure crisis. Corruption And mismanagement are eating away every parastatal. Our anti-graft authorities are frozen in midnight slumber and our public prosecutor is dropping cases faster than a blitzkrieg bombardment. Taxes are grim. Nobody loves taxes. Increasing them has been the center stage of fallen regimes and dismantled orders.
But what the citizenry hates most than taxes, is misappropriation. It is a sharp betrayal. The basic man is already struggling to make ends meet. The government is taking more and more everyday. It is the price of having a government, he concedes. But how does he feel when those tasked with managing his taxes are prioritizing their luxury and even the little set aside for one or two services, is not spared from theft.
I did not,and still don't, expect this government to be more prudent than the preceding ones. But if there is an iota of commitment to improve lives, just a rung higher, the government has to stop over-focusing on how to attain revenue but how to frugally manage and account for the little they are getting.
The greatest problem we have is not lack of revenue. It is not even bloated debt. It is wastage. Wastage.
Wastage. And Greed.
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