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You are wrong, the burden rate in Brazil is 85% of the employee's gross salary. So, using your example:

$1000 salary, $850 goes to the government.

When the employee receives this salary of $1000, about 20% goes to government.

In the end, the government ends up with HALF of what the employee gets paid.

This is why our economy is shitty for entrepreneurs.