The debt, therefore, is not reduced one farthing to the public by all the millions that have been paid; and it would require more money now to purchase up the capital, than when the scheme began.
In "Rights of Man," Paine concludes his critique of national debt management by stating that despite payments, the public has seen no real reduction in the debt's burden.
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