Presidential candidate Ciro Gomes (PDT) suggested, this Tuesday (13), ending the ceiling on public spending and taxing the social strata known as the super-rich. With that, he said he will be able to lower taxes on basic products and services for the population.
He visited, in the afternoon, the Association of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (Apae) of Salvador. Ciro was accompanied by his deputy, Ana Paula. Both attended artistic presentations by Apae students and also answered questions asked by young people. Ciro defended investment in institutions such as Apae and criticized the high tax rate on basic products, in addition to the difficulty of investing in social programs, due to the limits imposed by the spending ceiling.
“They put in the Constitution that the next president of Brazil can only spend what the [presidente Jair] Bolsonaro is currently spending another 6% correction for inflation, called a spending cap. One of [minhas] ideas is to end the spending ceiling. Absolutely nothing changes if we don’t change the model. Revoking the spending ceiling, we will be able to spend. I’m proposing to do away with the spending cap and change. Lower taxes on the poorest and middle class population. Decrease taxes on food, gasoline, telephone, medicine and increase taxes on the super-rich”, proposed Ciro.
The candidate also addressed the problem of unemployment in the country, in addition to informality, as both will be throwing millions of Brazilians, in the future, into social helplessness.
“Right now, 70 out of every 100 Brazilian workers are either unemployed or living on a gig. An informality that means 60 to 70 hours per week. No vacation entitlement, 13th [salário], or paid rest. We are sending 50 or 60 million people to old age without the right to anything. No social security protection,” said Ciro.
According to Ciro, another problem is the indebtedness of families, which reach 66 million people named in the Credit Protection Service (SPC). Likewise, there are 6 million companies in the country on Serasa. One of the reasons for this, according to the candidate, is the interest rate practiced in Brazil, one of the highest in the world.
In the morning, Ciro was in the Bahian municipality of Irecê, where he inaugurated the party’s campaign committee.
