Here the trust payout is a set percent of its value, say 8% , or the trust's income, whichever is less.

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The most popular idea among academic experts is to index benefits either to the rise in prices or to the increase in average wages throughout the economy -- whichever is less.

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The cap, enacted as a step toward controlling property tax rates that are among the highest in the nation, generally restricts districts and local governments from increasing their tax levy by more than 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.

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But of course more money swallowed by government is less money for the rest of us, whichever pocket it seemingly comes from.

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Whichever way you look at it, the more of us there are, the less food there is to eat, certainly using current farming practices anyway.

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The individuals within it can indeed take actions and those actions can be more or less ethical (using whichever set of ethical standards you want to apply) but the company itself is a thing and thus incapable of either actions or ethics.

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