Updated Budget Projections: 2016 to 2026 March 24, 2016. CBO projects a $534 billion deficit in fiscal year 2016, about $100 billion more than in 2015. If current laws generally remained unchanged, the deficit would increase from 2.9 percent to 4.9 percent of GDP over the next decade.
A Letter on the Abolition of the slave trade, Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, by William Wilberforce. London, 1807. Edited and introduced for the web by Dan Graves. William Wilberforce was a parliamentarian and man-about-town when he became convinced of the truth of Christianity. Upon his conversion, he thought he should withdraw from parliament, but pastor John Newton, author of the beloved hymn âAmazing Graceâ convinced him otherwise.
William Wilberforce: Christian Abolitionist, Reformer, Statesman. âGod Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners,â said William Wilberforce (1759-1833), the man who would be the driving force in the ultimate end of slavery in the British Empire.n February 23, 1807, Parliament voted in favor of Wilberforceâs Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Passing overwhelmingly, first in Lords and then in Commons by nearly an 18 to 1 margin, the bill received Royal Assent and became law on March 25, 1807.