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What Kim Kataguiri said about criminalize abusive price increases

Kim Kataguiri

Kim Kataguiri

May 20, 2026

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About: criminalize abusive price increases

Kim Kataguiri: The reality is that the intention is to leave this subjective margin, to leave the discourse that: "Well, if the price is going up, it's the private sector's fault, it's the entrepreneurs' fault.

Kim Kataguiri: So, let's arrest the entrepreneurs". I repeat: it's the same rhetoric from the Sarney era.

If the Government can't control inflation, let's criminalize raising prices, because the focus ceases to be holding the Government responsible for not being able to control public accounts, and becomes the business owner the villain for raising prices because the cost of living is rising.

Kim Kataguiri · 464:01

Kim Kataguiri: Similarly, the Government designs a poor measure to curb fuel increases, which most market actors did not want to adhere to, not even for the money the Government is offering.

Kim Kataguiri: The Government fails and now wants to criminalize the other side. The vote is "yes".

Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence

Says that criminalizing price increases distracts from the government's responsibility.

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