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42 statements · 1 politicians · November 30, 2025 · 6 min
Statements by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. 42 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Tariff Policy, Education, Socioeconomic Inequality, Monetary Policy.
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My friends.
Brazil changed this past week.
For the first time.
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About: reduce the tax burden on workers
More than 100 years after the start of the income tax, privileges of a small financial elite gave way to gains for the majority of the Brazilian people. Last Wednesday, November 26.
About: reduce the tax burden on workers
I signed the law that ends the income tax for those who earn up to R$5,000 per month. A proposal from our government.
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About: reduce the tax burden on workers
It was approved by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate unanimously and will now take effect in January 2026. If you earn up to R$5,000 per month, December will be the last month you have income tax deducted from your paycheck. And that same law reduces the tax for those who receive between R$5,000 and R$7,350, who will now pay less than they used to.
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About: reduce the tax burden on workers
With zero income tax, a person with a salary of R$4,800 can save R$4,000 in one year.
About: maintain and increase funding for public education
That's almost a tenth of the salary. And most importantly, the offset will not come from cuts to education or health.
About: increase taxation on the super-rich
but from taxing the super-rich, who earn more than one million a year and today pay nothing or almost nothing in taxes.
About: increase taxation on the super-rich
We are talking about 0.1% of the population, people who earn 10, 20, 100 times more than 99% of Brazilians and who will contribute 10% of the income tax to provide relief to the families who work, struggle and drive this country.
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About: increase taxation on the super-rich
140,000 super-rich.
About: increase taxation on the super-rich
paying a little more so that many millions of Brazilians stop having to pay.
About: reduce socioeconomic inequality
More than a correction to the income tax table, the new law attacks the main cause of inequality in Brazil, the so-called tax injustice.
my friends.
And it absorbs me.
About: reduce the tax privileges of the elite
Over 500 years of history, the Brazilian elite accumulated more and more privileges, which were passed down from generation to generation until reaching today. Among the many privileges, perhaps the most shameful is paying less income tax than the middle class and workers.
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About: reduce the tax burden on workers
Those who live off the sweat of their labor and actually build this country's wealth pay up to 27.5% in income tax.
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About: increase taxation on capital income
Meanwhile, those who live off investment income pay only an average of 2.5%.
About: increase taxation on the super-rich
Those who live in mansions, have money abroad, collect imported cars, already had private services and private jets, pay 10 times less than a teacher, a police officer or a nurse. Imagine someone fighting for decent housing, riding the bus, striving to buy a car and paying 10 times more income tax than the billionaires of our country. That is unacceptable. It needed to change and we are changing it.
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About: reduce the tax burden on workers
My friends, starting in January next year, what today is a deduction on the paycheck becomes extra money in the pocket.
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About: stimulate the economy by reducing income tax for workers
to travel with the family, eat what you like most, buy Christmas presents for the children, pay off a debt, get ahead on a payment, buy a bigger-screen television to watch the World Cup next year. This relief in income tax means more money in the pocket, which means greater purchasing power, which means higher consumption, which makes the economy turn.
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About: stimulate the economy by reducing income tax for workers
The Federal Revenue Service did the calculations. In 2026, this extra money in the hands of the Brazilian people should inject R$28 billion into the economy.
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About: stimulate the economy by reducing income tax for workers
An extraordinary stimulus for commerce, for industry, the services sector and entrepreneurship, which will generate more jobs, more opportunities and more income. The whole country will benefit.
About: strengthen the Brazilian economy
My friends, in less than three years of government, we have again placed Brazil among the ten largest economies in the world.
About: eradicate hunger through social programs like Bolsa Família
We removed the country from the map of hunger for the second time.
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About: control inflation
In four years we will have the lowest cumulative inflation in history.
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About: reduce unemployment
And the lowest unemployment rate.
About: value the minimum wage
The minimum wage has begun to rise again above inflation.
About: strengthen income transfer programs (Bolsa Família)
We strengthened Bolsa Família. We created Pé de Meia. We readjusted the value of school meals.
About: expand access to vocational education and higher education
We opened the doors of universities to black, indigenous and youth from the peripheries.
About: increase resources and credit support for family farming
We increased the Plano Safra and resources for family farming.
About: reduce energy bills for low-income families
We created the Luz do Povo program.
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About: reduce energy bills for low-income families
which zeros out or reduces the electricity bill for the most needy families. And we launched the gás do povo, because it is not fair that the families who need it most pay up to 10% of the minimum wage for a gas cylinder. Thanks to these and other policies, inequality in Brazil today is the lowest in history.
Even so...
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About: reduce socioeconomic inequality
Brazil remains one of the most unequal countries in the world.
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About: reduce socioeconomic inequality
The richest 1% hold 63% of the country's wealth.
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About: reduce socioeconomic inequality
Meanwhile, the poorest half of the population holds only 2% of the wealth. It is far too much wealth concentrated in the hands of a small segment of the super-rich.
About: reduce socioeconomic inequality
The change to the income tax is a decisive step toward transforming this reality. But it is only the first.
About: reduce socioeconomic inequality
Rest assured that we will not stop there. What we want is for the Brazilian people to have a right to the wealth they produce.
By the sweat of their labor.
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