Questão FC170990
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.
Internet: <https://www.pewtrusts.org> (adapted).
The author believes the risk of a fiscal policy not having its expected long-term impacts is increased in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Comentário: A afirmação está correta, pois o texto menciona que o risco de uma política fiscal não gerar os impactos esperados a longo prazo é especialmente elevado após a pandemia de COVID-19. Isso se deve ao fato de que os superávits orçamentários recordes, impulsionados pela ajuda federal durante a pandemia, levaram os estados a implementarem cortes de impostos e aumentos de gastos significativos. A falta de planejamento de longo prazo na elaboração dos orçamentos pode comprometer a sustentabilidade fiscal e a capacidade de enfrentar desafios futuros, conforme destacado pelo autor.
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