…Graph 1, Real Government Expenditures per Capita By using real [inflation adjusted] and per capita numbers, Drum has introduced a couple of denominators. Real expenses per cap is a rational…

…negotiators seek to bring in revenues at 18.5 percent and cap spending at about 21 percent of GDP. Those were levels that had been sustained over long periods of time…

…central issue is that Romney wants to cap government spending at 20 percent of GDP while boosting military spending to 4 percent of GDP and leaving Social Security harmless. That…

…to get a less noisy picture.) For me the really big sample relates to arctic ice. We don’t really know when the summer arctic ice cap was last as small…

…now CryoSat has given us the answer. It has shown that the Arctic sea cap is not only shrinking in area but is also thinning dramatically.” Graphic: shrinking ice caps…

…cover those suffering from pre-existing conditions. They also won’t be allowed to cap how much they will pay out to a desperately ill patient over the course of a year…

…slew of tax cuts, and plans to cap federal spending at 20% of GDP. But in both cases, the Romney campaign hasn’t fully explained how those provisions will be paid…

…week. And not have to turn it into welfare by “raising the cap,” or make it worthless as retirement insurance by cutting benefits, means testing, or raising the retirement age….

…approaches ranging from ‘lift the cap’ to Dale Coberly’s ‘good grief, it is just 40 cents a week to start if you gradually boost FICA’. On the other hand while…

…one that thinks it is smart of a state to set a cap on how much a municipality can raise taxes in any given year. The city notes that default…