Because that's the second largest expenditure for the state, I believe.
Bee Moorhead, executive director of Texas Impact, a multifaith advocacy group, said that the second largest expenditure for churches and other houses of worship was typically energy, after salaries for members of the clergy and staff.
Apart from food consumption, the category that includes housing, electricity, gas, and water represents the second largest expenditure item.
"The current financial circumstances are adding even more pressure to carmakers as consumers think twice about getting a new car, which is the second largest expenditure people make after a house," Vries said.
After the controversial High Speed Rail project, AQIP is the second largest expenditure category for the cap and trade funds.
The second largest expenditure category is health policy (20%).
In 13 of the 16 countries, spending for curative care accounts for the largest percentage of total health expenditures (THE); in 9 countries, PPH services are the second largest expenditure.
"[The tax exclusion] is the second largest federal expenditure on health care after Medicare," Gruber points out.
The main argument for reforming the mortgage interest deduction is simple math – it is the second largest tax expenditure, reducing federal revenues by more than $100 billion.
The Philippines is one of several nations involved in territorial disputes in the South China Sea mainly with China, which has the second largest military expenditure in the world.
