Dandi from Consignado wrote that the 1988 Constitution expanded the electorate by millions of people but did not hold accountable, in his assessment, the elites who benefited from the regimes between 1930 and 1980. According to him, FHC and Lula I postponed the problem by making the economy more efficient and resorting to indirect redistribution, while Lula II postponed it with economic growth. The author stated that misguided decisions from Dilma I were followed by unsuccessful attempts from Dilma II and Michel Temer to manage the situation. He also mentioned that Bolsonaro began to transfer costs to the poorest and that Lula tried to do so with the wealthiest, but none of the initiatives succeeded because divided elites remained indecisive. Dandi stated that the fiscal problem and stagnation of productivity could no longer be postponed. As alternatives, he presented the opening of the economy, microeconomic reforms, a significant increase in taxation of the wealthiest, the end of inefficient sectoral policies, and a restrictive environmental agenda—measures that, according to him, would benefit the poorest and burden the richest. The other option, he wrote, would be to deeply cut social spending, allow the expansion of the agricultural frontier without correcting the inefficiencies of agribusiness, maintain industrial policy, and let inflation reduce the value of debt. He concluded that postponing this choice would no longer be possible without social conflict or the continuation of malaise. #Economia #Política #JustiçaSocial (translated)
