"2012 tax-reform act stipulated that members of the national parliament and the prime minister's cabinet would pay 5% higher rates than anybody else in the country. "We did it as a gesture of solidarity," Kazimir said. "The message was, okay, if the parliament is going to raise taxes, we'll see to it that members of parliament pay more than anybody else. "It's the same kind of political bullshit you probably have in your Congress," Kazimir told me." --