[kictanet] Who is government?

[robert yawe]

Hi,

All government employees are net tax payers like you and I so who exactly is 
this tax collector who is not a net tax payer?  Or yes, the member of parliament 
who you and I elected to go and take care of our interests.

So instead of bashing the bureaucrats plan on how to discipline parliament, be 
it central or devolved, because we remain government and the buck stops with you 
and I.  

Regards 


 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696




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From: Eng. Wainaina Mungai <wainaina.mungai at gmail.com>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Wed, 27 April, 2011 10:40:31
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Who is government?


Thanks for the timely reminder but….I am referring to the part of government 
that collects tax and spends it (in)/appropriately to address some taxpayer's 
concerns such as roads, etc subsidies in times of hardship etc.

We are all government in an extrapolated sense...but let us focus on the net tax 
collector rather than the net taxpayer.

 


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Engineer,
>
>
>From your position who exactly is this animal called government, as Kariuki 
>Chotara once quipped "wapi huyo Karu Max anafanya watoto was university 
>kutupamawe, a shikwe na kufungwa jela" in the same breath from your utterances I 
>say "let us find this fellow called government and jail him/her/it after which 
>the price of imported petroleum will come down  to 3/- per litre and all Kenyans 
>will be free".
>
>
>What the late Kariuki Chotara did not understand was what is called an ideology 
>and him I forgive, government is an ideology not a place, person or principle.  
>
>
>As we implement the new constitution at 3G speed I hope those of us in the know 
>are aware of the impending tsunami "when you feel the earth quake look out for 
>the tsunami" - A Japanese plaque written over 100 years ago whose message was  
>ignored by the younger more technologically savvy generation.
>
>
>We are about to create 42 centres of power each of which will want to add 
>additional levies to those currently existing ones so the 25% increase in the 
>cost of living in the urban areas will seem like a drop in the ocean.  Bananas 
>from Tanzania will pass through 3 counties each of which will want to charge a 
>levy so by the time the banana gets to you in Nairobi it will definitely not 
>cost the current 5/- worse still will be those coming from Kisii.
>
>
>You and I  are government so lets stop throwing stones at ourselves and use our 
>education to offer solutions to problems.  The government is like a knife 
>therefore what matters is who welds it.
>
>
>Regards
>
>
>PS.  The ability to shutdown social media is an essential safety device and I 
>strongly believe needs to be put in place not having it is like sending our 
>police to apprehend armed thugs by claiming that the police might use the guns 
>to shoot innocent people.  I vote for an internet kill switch just like the rest 
>of  the developed nations, do not deceive yourself that the internet has no kill 
>switch.
> Robert Yawe
>KAY System Technologies Ltd
>Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>Kenya
>
>
>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
>
>
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