Flavio Bolsonaro: We cannot give up improving the bill with the justification, with all the quotes, "that this will go back to the Chamber," and approve a text that will destroy liberal professionals, with the argument that we must have speed, when we have every condition to make the changes here and for this text to go to the Chamber again, without any problem.
Flavio Bolsonaro: It seems there is a concern that this text, by going to the Chamber, will return to the hands of Deputy Arthur Lira, and then there is an electoral problem implied here, between the lines of this bill, which is not appropriate for this discussion, it is not appropriate to contaminate the debate.
Therefore, Mr. President, we will vote in favor of the bill, but we will defend here Senator Carlos Portinho's separate-vote motion, which deals precisely with liberal professionals, because, beyond what I have said here, the Lula Government has such an obsession with taxing, taxing, taxing, with levies, with tax, tax, that it increases revenue by reaching into the taxpayer's pocket and yet spending still increases.
Flavio Bolsonaro: President Bolsonaro left the Government with a R$54 billion surplus, and today we already have more than R$350 billion in deficit, debt, commitments that will have to be honored at some point.
Flavio Bolsonaro: In this bill here, they are inventing a retroactive taxation, which is unconstitutional.