Fiscal laxity tends to fatten the government wage bill, setting a high benchmark for private pay deals that can cripple competitiveness.

财政松弛易于引发公务员薪酬膨胀，导致私人部门支付标准过高，从而挫伤竞争力。

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This law greatly reduces the computing workload, and the government and building industry department can use this law to calculate fiscal evaluation indexes industry benchmark value as the references.

这一规律大大减少了各经济指标的计算工作量，同时可供建设部门测算财务评价指标行业基准值时参考。

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