Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: With zero income tax, a person with a salary of R$4,800 can save R$4,000 in one year.
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: That's almost a tenth of the salary. And most importantly, the offset will not come from cuts to education or health.
but from taxing the super-rich, who earn more than one million a year and today pay nothing or almost nothing in taxes.
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: 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.
Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: 140,000 super-rich.