To sustain this military machine and to meet other state expenses large amounts of revenue were necessary.

He accepted a controversial $20,000 pay raise, and often took friends on trips at state expense.

For the few thousand children attending private schools at state expense, Washington's dollars will go with them, too.

The workers were probably fed and housed at state expense.

It was not easy to get twenty miles of pavement for this county at state expense.

So all we're saying is, 'You want a holiday at state expense?

In addition, the Vann family is being educated at state expense.

But it also can cause state expenses to rise, as more people go on welfare and become eligible for Medicaid.

Many would say, as the department itself acknowledges, that health care should be a basic state expense.

The owners have been living in apartments at state expense -$15,000 a month - since August 1985.