If it is true that companies are the engine that drives the economy, another truth is that public policies can stop or lubricate the engine. Among us, the rule is that they give you the flu.
The latest INE survey on contextual costs, already mentioned by Dinheiro Vivo, has the merit of officially confirming the long-known factors that block the rotation and development of business action. The positive thing was that the conclusions aroused the interest of the study offices of the Ministries of Finance and Economy.
According to the research, the three biggest obstacles to economic activity are the Judiciary, licensing and taxation. Then come human resources, obstacles to starting an activity and the administrative burden. Finally, barriers to internationalization, network industries (services, energy, transport) and financing.
The vast majority of these obstacles result from public policies and the unrestrained bureaucracy that serves them, and it is high time that the sovereign powers, now with a new P. Republic, put aside ideologies and approve legislation that removes them, starting with the judicial system and licensing, where the constraints considered most serious are found. And without fear of confronting the powers and corporations that have established themselves in the Public Administration itself.
Circumscribing the problems of Justice to the business area, it is necessary to reform an inoperative system that does not resolve administrative, commercial, tax and labor disputes in a timely manner, the delay in which has led companies to bankruptcy, multiplies in ostentatious searches of companies and entrepreneurs, leaving those targeted publicly exposed, with pending cases and awaiting trial for an indefinite period of time.
How do we need to change legislation and correct the licensing process, the effects of which are felt above all in industry and the environmental area, where a bureaucracy like a sect that protects vice and virtue, and in defiance of the indispensable rigor that can never be in question, tortures norms into case-by-case interpretations, contradicts criteria, creates uncertainty and curtails initiatives.
The country will not grow until this bureaucracy of “stall, enter and postpone” that hampers the engine of investment and the development of business action is removed.
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