This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition NO to a tax increase to pay for the NHS.
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The government is proposing a TAX increase to pay for the NHS deficit.
This could be achieved instead by stopping UK foreign aid.
The UK government sent £13.4 billion abroad in foreign aid, this money could however be used by the NHS without increasing TAX or resulting to government borrowing.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/217033
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