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To: Remember_Salamis
1. implement constitutional controls on non-defense spending; non-defense spending cannot exceed a growth equal to that of the rate of inflation plus annual cost-of-living adjustments.

Why inflation PLUS COLA? I'd go with just inflation, since inflation is itsself the COLA.

20 posted on 02/05/2004 8:34:16 AM PST by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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To: krb
Well, not all the time sometimes there are non-inflationary increases in the price of things.
21 posted on 02/05/2004 8:44:03 AM PST by Remember_Salamis
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