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  • The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

    Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.179
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