The legislative arm's moderation of the executive excesses should include setting targets like oil price benchmarks, overall budgetary expenditures, overall budgetary revenues, for deficits and public debts.
Town selectmen are also permitted to call special town meetings as warranted, although these must be approved by a judge if they involve budgetary expenditures or changes.
Social welfare payments, such as unemployment benefits, child allowances, old age pensions and minimum income support, were expanded continuously, until they formed a major budgetary expenditure.
This year's estimated budgetary expenditure is approximately $540 billion; total expenditures are an estimated $438.6 billion while amortisation an estimated $100.8 billion.
