"Matajiri" wa ada estate na maskini wa kinondoni shamba"

[Jaji Mfawidhi]

In 1888, in Chicago United States of Ameerica

A bridge was built to connect two parts of the city. A toll was charged but officials wanted it to be a "progressive" tax. Rich people will pay more to cross.

So how could they identify rich and poor quickly?

They had an idea, rich people wear shoes (it's 1888 remember), so they decided to charge a tax based on that. If you cross the bridge wearing shoes you pay a tax, but if you are barefoot, you cross for free.

Simple, Easy, Difficult to avoid,


But it failed.
Why?
1. The rich simply took off their shoes and crossed the bridge. (It's called Tax Avoidance)
The poor?
They did not want to be seen as poor, so they would wear shoes or borrow shoes to cross the bridge.

This is a true story

So what are the lessons?
1. Poverty is loud, literally.

2. Poverty is in the mind, but a verb

4. The rich stay rich by not spending. The poor stay poor by spending

5. Humans are irrational

6. The rich always get better financial advice

7. Taxing the rich to help the poor is cute but complicated.

Are you "borrowing shoes" to cross any "bridge?

 

[Ncha Kali]

Tuchangie title au maudhui?

 

[Jaji Mfawidhi]

Tuchangie title au maudhui?

maudhui

 

[roadmaster]

Mimi uvccm sijaelewa

 

[Coolant]

Mimi uvccm sijaelewa

Hamia bawacha

 

[mrangi]

Zamani nimeishi kote huko

Ova

 

[King Kong III]

 

[King Kong III]

Zamani nimeishi kote huko

Ova

Hivi ADA ESTATE si Oysterbay tu ile?

 

[Jaji Mfawidhi]

Zamani nimeishi kote huko

Ova

Ada Estate labda uliishi sevanto kota kwakuwa kodi si chini ya 3 milion kwa mwezi, kinondoni shamba maeneo yaKwa Tarimba au Hananasif sawa maana chumba pale ni Elfu 60 kwa mwezi.

 

[Alvajumaa]

Dada leo uzi wako sijaelewa kitu