The requirements of qualification of the liberal-democratic State implied, along the last two centuries, the progressive invigoration of the mechanisms for the regulation of political and economic relationships and improvement of the technical and managerial resources available within the State. [...] Thus, in 1966, the definitive administrative unification of the existing institutes occurred with the creation of the National Institute of Social Insurance -INPS, which assumed the responsibility for the installment of the services of medical attendance, payment of benefits and the collection of contributions related to all the workers linked to the old institutes. [...] Throughout the 80s decade, the redemocratizaton process elapsed at the same time of the worsening of the fiscal crisis and of the life conditions of a significant portion of the Brazilian population. [...] Finally, in the XX century, we have the fight for abolishing inequalities with regards to the essential elements of the social well-being and the incorporation of the social rights to the status of the citizenship and the consequent creation of an universal right to an income that is not proportional to the market value of the citizen. [...] The concern of the legislators with the definition of a group of sources of revenue that, at the same time, could unburden the payroll of companies and reduce the sensibility of the system to the economic flotation was not enough to guarantee the equilibrium of the system.
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