Economics
Bolsonaro’s Top Priority Would Be Brazil’s Economic Revival, Son Says
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Jair Bolsonaro’s top priority will be to fix Brazil’s battered economy and not spend political capital on other issues if elected president later this month, his son and campaign adviser said in an interview on Wednesday.
At the top of the list are plans to cap pension spending and simplify an unwieldy tax system that stifles economic growth. "Brazil is a crashing plane, we will be daring," Eduardo Bolsonaro told Bloomberg News in his office in the lower house of Congress.