Lula Notes a Triumph when Passing the Deputies Unanimously Lower Taxes to the Middle Class

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The lowering of taxes on the middle class — Brazil’s wage earners who charge around $900 a month — achieved a kind of miracle in these times of extreme political polarization in Latin America’s first economy. And it gave President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva an important, albeit partial, triumph that boosts his main electoral promise for this third term. The Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved, on Wednesday night, to exempt from income tax th…