Rep. Adam Schiff's opening, on the screen for all of the Senate to see today, January 22, 2020
Is from Enclosure: [Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration], [18 August 1792]
Objections and Answers respecting the Administration of the Government
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002
Where the document is talking about the Taxation of the Government on the People
And the rates to be taxed and the Debt.
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Object. The public Debt is greater than we can possibly pay before other causes of adding to it will occur; and this has been artificially created by adding together the whole amount of the Debtor and Creditor sides of the Account.
Part of the Answer.
But whether the public Debt shall be extinguished or not within a moderate period depends on the temper of the people. If they are rendered dissatisfied by misrepretations of the measures of the government, the Government will be deprived of an efficient command of the resources of the community towards extinguishing the Debt. And thus, those who clamour are likely to be6 the principal causes of protracting the existence of the debt.
Those that yell the loudest - Q