Questão FC170791
Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, poli
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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2024
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
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Without harming the meaning and the correctness of the text, the word “ensuring” (second sentence of the text) could be correctly replaced with to make sure.
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Comentário: A afirmação está errada porque a substituição da palavra "ensuring" por "to make sure" altera a estrutura gramatical da frase e, consequentemente, o seu significado. "Ensuring" é um gerúndio que funciona como um verbo principal na frase, enquanto "to make sure" é uma expressão que introduz um infinitivo, o que muda o foco da ação. Além disso, "ensuring" implica um processo contínuo de garantir algo, enquanto "to make sure" pode sugerir uma ação mais pontual. Portanto, a substituição proposta compromete a clareza e a intenção original do texto.
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