claim: "look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent."
author: peter orszag
evidence_1: although global commitment to control the hiv/aids pandemic has increased  significantly in recent years, the virus continues to spread with alarming and ....  this trend is most apparent in sub-saharan africa, where women represent 57  percent of adults living with hiv and 75 percent of hiv-infected young people.
evidence_2: jul 11, 2002 ... as states deal with their fiscal crises and search for ways to close large gaps  between revenues and expenditures, few states have yet enacted significant tax  increases — with the exception of ... the cost of a pack of cigarettes causes a  decline in cigarette purchases of about 11 percent. over the longer term ...
evidence_3: feb 17, 2011 ... in fiscal year 2010, the federal government spent $3.6 trillion dollars, or 24.6  percent of gdp, well above the historical average. the consequence of this  spending was $1.3 trillion in budget deficits. a large part of this overspending  was improper spending or spending that never should have happened at all ...
evidence_4: jun 21, 2017 ... arda has been using the public private partnership financing model to fund the  revival of most of its idle estates. in the past five years, the authority raised  utilisation of its estates from an average of 15 percent to around 75 percent, mr  nyabadza said in a recent interview. he said the authority would look at ...
evidence_5: however, because of budget neutrality, we find that these options entail  redistribution of $1.2 billion in annual benefits, affecting 50 percent to 75 percent  of all .... an ssi recipient may not have access to the income of other household  members, but may benefit from living in a household that can afford to spend  more on food ...