Almost everyone who owns a home in the city of Petropolis — where the Brazilian royal family once had a summer palace — still pays tax to the descendants of the former rulers. Amadeu Júnior via Flickr Here is a eye-popping statistic from Brazil: 1 percent of the populationcontrols almost half the land. The country is […]
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