Rejected petition introduce into law a requirement for a balanced budget.

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with the large amount of waste and overspending of the last government and the massive amount government debt a new law should be created to force the uk government to have balanced budgets and prevent any government from ever again running up bebts for future generations for any reason. The law would require that the government could not spend more than it earns in revenue from taxes etc.

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Date submitted 8 August 2011
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