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My Take On Ghana Government’s Desire To Impose Taxes on Condoms

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The tactics the government in power is ‘trying’ to use to grab enough money ‘just in case’ their tenure on office comes to an abrupt end is very disappointing, disturbing and very inhuman. Taxes on goods and services keep rising but we don’t even know where these taxes vanish to.

Taxes collected from citizens are meant to make life easier and services more accessible but that is not the case (or not meant to be in the case of Ghana).

A Ghanaian in power savours the opportunity to use whatever position he finds himself to exploit and oppress the other person, sometimes leading to fatal consequences. As a result of the lack of a functional system in any area of our national life, every Ghanaian makes the best of exploiting a situation.

Ghana operates a system where no one cares about anyone simply because they are never held accountable for their misconduct. My point is, even the thickets of men would succeed as a Prime Minister let’s say in a place like the United Kingdom because if such a man is elected into office, one of two things would happen. It is either the system beats sanity and conformity into him or the system pushes him out as quickly as he is voted into power. That is a workable system that no one can fiddle with.

The National Women’s Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Anita De Sosoo has suggested that government imposes more taxes on condoms to ensure discipline in relationships in the country. She believes that if more taxes are imposed on condoms, it will reduce the large number of single mothers in Ghana. She stressed that more taxes on condom will prevent people from engaging in rampant and irresponsible sexual behaviour.

“Taxes on Condoms will prevent people from engaging in rampant and irresponsible sexual behaviour”

Crying over spilt milk, are we? ‘Nobody teaches a child who God is’ (literally).

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