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II. Nature of the case
3 3 Ineligible
or 6
Hence no obstacle to
war, unnecessary war
can be too dearly paid
for.
Not that for the merely for this position even for this purpose any one could
seriously maintain that the accumulation of a national
debt bear especially a national debt heavy enough
to prevent war would be an eligible measure. All
that is meant is — that when in this shape a public the community has been subjected to
burthen has been produced accumulated burthen in this shape,
this is the shape in which it for that purpose it
were desirable that it should be kept exist, so
long and in so far as it exists in any shape: that
in particular no such thing as a sinking fund should
ever be established: and that accordingly should one
for should any permanent surplus be found to have
existence in the produce of the existing taxes, the result
should be the abolition of a prop correspondent quantity
of the produce of the most burth those of which the influence
were found in all respects taken together, the most
pernicious
or 7
Not that accumulation
of debt merely to prevent
war would be
eligible. Only that
the burthen when already existing
should not be
transferred changed
from this shape to another
Conclusion. 1. No
sinking fund; surplus
established, take
off the most pernicious
taxes
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