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BRASILIA – Appointed rapporteur for the 2021 Budget, Senator Márcio Bittar (MDB-AC) said Wednesday that hungry people in the country “cannot wait” for reforms to be approved.
According to him, it is necessary to find a joint solution to make a program of assistance to the vulnerable viable and, at the same time, signal the resumption of the economic agenda with the inclusion of emergency Constitutional Reform Proposals (PEC) in the budget.
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Bittar, who is also the rapporteur for the PEC Emergency and the federative pact, said that he was elected “defending this agenda” of the reforms, but considered that aid to the vulnerable cannot wait:
– People who need to eat will not wait. I have already said since last year that (the reforms) must go together. Now, it is essential as a sign of responsibility that, when presenting the budget piece, if within it is the solution for Brazilians who still need the State, there are also the emergency PECs, the triggers.
Bittar referred to proposals for constitutional amendments that allow a reduction in mandatory spending on exceptional staff like the current one when speaking to journalists after the installation of the Joint Budget Commission (CMO).
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For him, the inclusion of emergency aid and fiscal adjustment in the 2021 budget proposal “clearly marks the resumption of the economic agenda and the care of Brazilians who still need the State.”
Bittar and the president of the CMO, Flávia Arruda (PL-DF), met with the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, to discuss the 2021 Budget.
‘Social sensitivity’ with fiscal responsibility
After the meeting, Guedes reinforced the idea defended by the heads of the Legislature that it is necessary to have “social sensitivity” linked to fiscal responsibility:
– President (Jair) Bolsonaro has always said that health and the economy go together. President (Rodrigo) Pacheco, of the Senate, and President Arthur Lira, of the Chamber, also clearly said that you have to have social sensitivity on the one hand, but on the other hand, they always said that it has to be with the prosecutor. responsibility.
He continued:
We are committed to future generations. We have to pay for our wars. If we have a war with the virus, we have to endure it and not simply push those costs irresponsibly.
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For Guedes, the commitment to social sensitivity with fiscal responsibility is “the mark of a reformist Congress, a determined president and the constructive political leadership that we have in Brazil today.”
In the meeting with Bittar and Flávia, Guedes indicated that he is against the creation of a tax to pay for emergency aid, as was fueled yesterday by the parliamentarians in Congress. Guedes argues that benefit payments must be offset by spending cuts.
Hours later, in a press interview, the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (DEM-MG), said that the creation of a tax “is always something traumatic” and that the ideal is to find another solution:
– The moment to dimension the creation or extinction of taxes is in the tax reform. We are going to find a solution, with economic foundations, without the need to create taxes. This is the ideal to do.
