First he called for raising taxes to pay for new spending on infrastructure, training and education.

How can you pay for so much public spending if you exempt large chunks of people from tax?

If all voters had to pay for local spending, it would act as a natural cap to council extravagance.

There is no reason why our children and grandchildren should have to pay for reckless spending by Congress.

The magic number denotes the point at which the revenue from oil is no longer sufficient to pay for spending.

Government must decide at the same time how much to spend and how to pay for spending.

Existing law forbids the use of any surplus to pay for a tax cut or new spending.

Raising revenue to pay for expanded social spending is a serious problem for the Government.

That is an incomplete answer - especially when the taxes are going toward paying for new spending.

It did not include a cap on the amount of future lottery revenue that could be pledged to pay for current spending.