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With a less burden of taxation than the citizen has endured for six years past, the entire public debt could be paid in ten years.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “With a less burden of taxation than the citizen has endured for six years past, the entire public debt could be paid in…”
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Grant believes that with reduced taxation, the public debt could be paid off within a decade.
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