Lula Defends Real Increase for Minimum Wage and Questions Tax Impact: 'What's Going to Break the Country?'

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended on Thursday the granting of real increases to the minimum wage and questioned the impact of the policy on public accounts. According to him, the debate on fiscal balance often transfers responsibility for workers, pensioners and beneficiaries of care programs. — Now the miracle workers appear saying that it cannot give real increase to the minimum wage because it ends with the minimum wage. People, wh…