"We need to find 'new money' and this is important money," said Thiago Lima, from the Ministry of Finance and the G20 Task Force to Fight Hunger and Poverty, in an interview with Kids 20 about the proposal to tax large fortunes.
Among the many other press agencies present at the coverage of the second meeting of finance ministers and central bank presidents of G20 Brasil, which was attended by Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, was "Pega a Visão: Mário's newspaper", produced by the young reporters of the Technological Educational Gymnasium (GET) Mário Fernandes Pinheiro, from Senador Camará district, in Rio de Janeiro.
The students attended the press conference given by the minister and interviewed names such as Ilan Goldfajn, president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Carlos Alberto Jr., communications coordinator for G20 Brasil, and Thiago Lima, who works for the Ministry of Finance in the Secretariat of International Affairs of the G20 Task Force to Fight Hunger and Poverty.
"The first impact is an ethical impact. A demonstration that people who earn the most money also need to contribute to the development of their communities. The poorest people pay proportionally more tax than the richest. And the second impact is really financial, it's no use having good ideas and not having money, we need money to implement public policies and more and more countries are having budget difficulties. The fiscal space is getting smaller. We need to find 'new money' and this is important money," said Thiago about the proposal to tax large fortunes in an interview with the students.
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Under the coordination of the Agency of Public School Students from the city of Rio de Janeiro (Andar), a project developed by the Municipal Education Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro, "Pega Visão" is a partner of the Kids 20.
