We are elected legislators tasked to provide our people with laws that will ensure their well-being, welfare, security, and health. It is our duty to transform our society into a cohesive force that will lead our people to a better tomorrow. As that great Champion of the Masses by the name of Ramon Magsaysay once said, "Those who have less in life should have more in law." Scholars have always noted that history belongs not to the many who stubbornly refuse to yield to change, but to the few who dare cross the threshold towards progress. I fervently hope that we will also contribute in improving the tax reform package and agree that taxes will energize the engines of growth and fuel economic development.