The money goes mostly to schools, synagogues, recreation centers and the like, legitimate expenditures under the tax law.
In the political context, which is where it's used most, it means something like "expenditure of capital", or "erosion of trust".
For wealthy families that want their scions to take over business empires, the $200,000 price tag on a diploma from a top-tier U.S. college is not too high and neither is a like-size expenditure on the prep work.
Second, and it's quite simple really, treat us like citizens, and not like government expenditures.
Then there are things like sushi expenditures -- not a major expense in landlocked states like Iowa ($51,336), but a major weekly outlay for the typical suburban family here.
Like independent expenditures, electioneering reports are supposed to be filed electronically, not on paper, and most are.
The administration was not prepared to undertake any further major interventions, like government expenditures in the housing market, to protect homeowners, he said.
Georgia has a running system that will track grades and test results for each of the state's 1.3 million students from year to year and school to school, allowing administrators to compare student achievement with factors like school expenditures.
But the governor did not push for some of the more sweeping proposals to overhaul the state's campaign finance laws, like limiting expenditures in local races or reducing the $30,000 donation limits to political action committees controlled by New Jersey legislative leaders.
