kasa państwowa

All this work was carried out at no cost to the public purse.

It was completed in 1733 at a cost to the public purse of £20,000.

Private health care costs are now having to be picked up by the public purse.

The money to keep them in the manner they expect is still coming from the public purse.

But the money almost never went into the public purse.

After all, isn't that money coming from the public purse?

Those 102 cases brought a total loss to the public purse of £2.2m, or an average £21,000 in each case.

The costs have to be paid out of the public purse.

I don't like the demands they make on the public purse.

As the money came out of the public purse, why worry?