Expenditures

Some data suggests that the actual geographic difference in expenditures is less than the FMR differences, and at a 2005 National Academy of Sciences workshop on poverty measurement, HUD staff noted a dozen specific problems with using FMR data for geographic adjustment purposes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think people generally overfetishize progressivity of the tax base relative to the fact that the net impact of higher taxes and higher expenditures is almost always progressive irrespective of the tax base. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Investment -- or let us call it expenditures on houses, plants and buildings of all kinds, equipment and so forth - is one of the key factors in the business outlook. 1949 gave Canada about the biggest investment boom in our history. ❋ Unknown (1949)

An opportunity will be afforded a limited number of both boys and girls over fourteen years to work out their term expenditures, with the exception of $5.00 which must be paid at the time of enrollment. ❋ Robert Elliott Flickinger (N/A)

"The reality is it's not a real 50-50 split, when they get to deduct $600-$700 million off the top, every year, in what they call expenditures," he said, referring to arena improvements, among other items. ❋ MITCH LAWRENCE (2011)

For example, recently the Comptroller conducted an audit of $50,000 in expenditures and then went to two local campaign stops. ❋ David A. Singer (2010)

And make no mistake, tax expenditures is spending by another name. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But new data also show that the sheer volume of outside expenditures is unprecedented: Independent groups have reported spending twice as much on congressional races this year as they did in 2008, and more than five times as much as they did in 2006, according to a Washington Post analysis. ❋ Dan Eggen (2010)

You shouldn't presume that a Dem elected primarily via corporate money and independent expenditures is the same thing as a Dem elected primarily via smaller donations directly to the campaign. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile this week, Natwar Gandhi, the District's chief financial officer, announced that the city was already looking at a $175 million budget gap for fiscal 2011, forcing the D.C. Council to start trimming expenditures from a budget that only really took effect today. ❋ Martin Austermuhle (2010)

How much of these expenditures is "investment" and how much is misspent on growing bureaucracy and corruption? ❋ Reuven Brenner (2010)

But Tuesday's vote effectively quashes any chance of enacting new disclosure requirements for the 2010 elections, which are likely to include hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditures by outside groups and corporations. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

I don't see how in any case that using donor money for personal expenditures is acceptable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Look at him, [iced out] chain iced out teeth, [20 inch] [rims], such negroidian expenditures; he could've spent that on a house. ❋ How You Doin??? (2008)