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B Political Prospects
Bankruptcy Probability
our holding one thereafter. not continuing to hold one thereafter
The If for 40 or
50 years longer we can go on paying every year about
£1,500,000's £3,000,000 +
+ 3,368,366: 2s: 10d the exact amount of the future annual charge created by the debt funded in 1797. Comm: of 23 Rep. Appendix Y. p. 333. Above £600,000 of this having been incurred by the funding of Navy Bills part of which had been offered in prior years, call the fresh charge incurred in the course of this Year in even money £3,000,000.
worth of fresh taxes in addition to those
of the preceding years, so we may as to the end of
time: — but the difficulty with regard to the first
40 or 50 years continues unabated. Buying in the debt
that is, buying in of the Annuities granted by Government
affords no relief in the mean time from the pressure of the taxes imposed for
the purpose of raising the fund for the payment of those
Annuities dues, it is only so much progress made to the
facility of affording an easement of that kind at the
40 or 50 years distance: so far from affording any such
relief it precludes us from the possibility of receiving
it: some by continuing the appropriation of the fund
which the taxes are to produce, it prevents those taxes
from being repealed.
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