Never has the government collected so many taxes and done so little with it. Brazilians work five months out of the year to pay their taxes. Brazilian companies waste 3 months in preparing their tax documents. And what do Brazilians get out of this? Nothing. Sub-standard schools (Brazilian recently ranked second-last in the PISA test, behind only Indonesia), terrible health clinics where people suffer abhorrent mistakes like having the wrong limb amputated, and absolutely no safety or security. The biggest tragedy in Brazil is the murder rate. There are 300 million people in the US, and there are 15,000 gun-related murders per year here. There are 200 million people in Brazil, and there are 50,000 gun-related murders/year there. There are cities in Brazil (like Maceió) where the murder rate are much higher than Basra, Baghdad, and Faluja. And this is where FIFA wants to host the World Cup? A country with a wartime death toll? At the height of the Lebanese Civil War, several thousand Lebanese refugees fled their homeland for a safer Brazil. Today, Brazil’s death toll from crime exceeds the death toll in Lebanon back then, some days, it exceeds the death toll in Syria’s current civil war.
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