Adjusting for inflation, they said, state allocations for English for Speakers of Other Languages programs have dropped every year since 1995, when the state capped financing for the largest adult literacy program, Employment Preparation Education, at $96 million.
Others want to cap campaign financing.
And as China battles environmental issues caused by rapid industrialisation across the country, pouring money into coal caps, green finance and renewables, reforestation programmes and anti-pollution research, Hangzhou seems ahead of the curve.
The San Diego proposal, he said, would cap public financing at 32%, without a tax increase.
But her husband was enthusiastic about the neighborhood — in part, he said, because "I couldn't remove my finance cap".
As a result, a political system which imposes no effective cap on campaign finance leads inexorably to plutocracy: governance on behalf of the richest people and corporations.
To that point, Apple is worth $174.67 per share today, putting its market cap (via Google Finance) at $902.2 billion.
Above the cap, the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, financed by a tax on oil companies, is supposed to pick up the tab, up to a total of $1 billion.
At about 5 p.m. Eastern time on September 30th, agency officials concluded they were too near the cap to continue financing loans.
Congress rejected an administration proposal that would have placed a financing cap on the program and turned the money over to the states.
