Memes

they are doing this since about 2016-ish in brazil.

as a brazilian, heres some nuance: the """"great progressive left wing"""" (notice the big quotes) in power today was expected to undo it, but they literally made it worse as one of their first decisions.

things are expected to get much worse this year. thats because up until 2023 we had exceptions for covid and the transition away from a literal fascist who wanted to military coup our asses.

if you want to know more about it, its a policy they are calling "teto de gastos" or more recently "arcabouço fiscal". maybe they expect the new complicated, aristocratic sounding name will discourage our purposefully uneducated population from discussing it.

edit - let me use that opportunity to say fuck lula, he looks progressive and his mouth says progressive things but his actual governing is no better than biden today despite his glorious past organizing his ML party at the time and actually based strikes.