Brazzil

Nice article, Cristovam, but why do not give us some answers instead of just rising questions and pointing problems?

You are learning to write an article, very good, congratulations. It makes me to think about it. However, we have so much problems in our Country. The biggest one is the corruption, also lack of nationalism, lazy public servants, lack of education. Low self steem and so many things.
Now, with a worker in the Presidence. The workers do not help workers. Look at Correio does not work, University Education is one situation that we can not even discuss here. Our citizens abroad many of them with high technologic skills and general knowledge have simples problems with the Brazilian Diplomatas that were not educated to deal with Brazilian citizens.
The security concern in Brazil is another huge problem. What is going on with the health system. How, we are going to make a govern to work in Brazil if only few people can pay taxes. Our salary is so low. The wealthy is concentrated in the hands of few people. Why not taxes wealthy as USA does. If you received more than 1 million dollar of heritage, you must pay the value after that. Per example. if your parents passed away and you received a 2 million dollars heritage, therefore you must pay 1 million in taxes to the governm. The governm to other side can at least use this money to social reforms, education and even buy some extra bombs to drop in Iraq. No Country makes reform with out money. Brazilians can not wait a miracle from Lula.
We have so many questions. So little answers. It seems to me that everybody wants to move to Europe now. Italians are making a fortune selling fakes passaport to Brazilians. Now, the Dream is to live abroad before Brazil really sinks.

the previous post talks about an inheritance tax as a manner to increase revenue. I concur, that Brazil does need to increase direct taxation like the inheritance tax, but there has to be a more fundamental change among the government. Where will this money end up? Also, we have to come up with bigger and greater ideas.
And I have thought of one: how about ending the ICMS, the Brazilian sales tax and replace it with the federal CPMF tax, under one value for each state. IF at the current low level, 0.38 the federal gov can receive 23 billion reais, the tax rate will probably have to jump to somewhere near 1.5 or 2 percent. If done correctly, you could substitute a indirect regressive tax, like ICMS and have a state runned CPMF, that is collected by federal gov. but distributed to the states to compensate for the loss of ICMS. DONT FORGET THAT THE CPMF IS A TAX ON 40 PERCENT OF BRAZILIANS WHO ACTUALLY HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT! 60 percent of the people would not pay such a tax unlike the current ICMS that affects everybody who consumes anything! Also, clearly the federal gov. would lose the CPMF revenue that could be made up by raising federal taxes on income tax (IR), Rural tax and even a hike in the inheritance tax that unfortunately Senadors reject increasing.

I agree with you that tax in Brazil must have a big change. However, we need to do a big change in all our society. Change the educational system, special Universitiesm they only eat money and do not show any practical results. Improve security, make a professional army cheaper and more mobile and ready to act in international and national problems such as Haiti,iraq and so on. We can not allow US to play alone with all cards. We need to make people more responsible for their acts. People, such as public staff if make mistake must pay even with jaile time and working in a prison factory or prison farm.
Hills with favelas must be cleaned and make reflorestation zone. This will improve the environment quality and make the cities more safety. It will bust turism and billion of dollars in Turism will come in 10 years.
We need to sit down and discuss a new society. Organizations like Rio Branco Institute does not need to exist, this is a waist of money. Let's to talk about it.

I am not from PT, I am not a farm labour and I do not have interess in land in Brazil. However, since the 13 colonies from Brazil, when the land were share among the friend of the real family. Such lands still in the hands of the same family. We need to end with the big farms in Brazil now, no tomorrow.
It is very sad to know that the FHC was the great-grandson of the officer who handed the Emperor his expulsion notification. It means that this people are sucking Brazil by generation by generation as servant public.
We need to have reforms urgent. Make a big tax revenue reform. Even doing tax in fortune and heritage as describe in a text above. Brazil needs immediately a big reform. Or the social violence will increase more and more all Brazilian system is contaminated by corruption, desrespect for the common citizen and a slope job in all sectors of the adminstration of the public service.

I am not from PT, I am not a farm labour and I do not have interess in land in Brazil. However, since the 13 colonies from Brazil, when the land were share among the friend of the real family. Such lands still in the hands of the same family. We need to end with the big farms in Brazil now, no tomorrow.
It is very sad to know that the FHC was the great-grandson of the officer who handed the Emperor his expulsion notification. It means that this people are sucking Brazil by generation by generation as servant public.
We need to have reforms urgent. Make a big tax revenue reform. Even doing tax in fortune and heritage as describe in a text above. Brazil needs immediately a big reform. Or the social violence will increase more and more all Brazilian system is contaminated by corruption, desrespect for the common citizen and a slope job in all sectors of the adminstration of the public service.

re: make a professional army cheaper and more mobile and ready to act in international and national problems such as Haiti,iraq

If a PT gov't sends troops to Iraq, would that be on the side of the elected Iraqi gov't or on the side of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi?