[Civsoc-mw] [NYASANET] Unima on a Xroads,

[Tony Thontholani]

Temwa, 

Yes. Collecting taxes costs money. 
A village uncle used to hide in the hills whenever tax collectors were visiting. And he was not the only one to run away from the tax collector. 

Still, the fact is that we are breeding rapidly. Hardly two decades ago we were slightly over 10 million. Now, we are approaching 18 million. 

Maybe our artisans should introduce sex robots on the Malawi market. 

People shun vasectomy. 


> On 28. Apr 2017, at 21:46, temwa malange <temwamalange at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Tony,
> 
> You can only tax earned income. You cant tax non existent income.
> 
> In Malawi, there was poll tax I hear. I heard it was 1 tick. I heard it was
> later called "chamwaka", whatever that means. Politically unviable, it
> failed.
> 
> In the UK, there was poll tax, politically unviable, it failed.