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With diminished taxation and resources increasing immeasurably, the national debt will cease to be a burden,--becoming “fine by degrees and beautifully less” until it gradually ceases to exist.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “With diminished taxation and resources increasing immeasurably, the national debt will cease to be a burden,--becoming…”
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Sumner envisions a future where the national debt becomes manageable and eventually disappears.
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