Quote from: notig on February 13, 2013, 07:45:31 AM

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wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.

Does this mean essentially that he thinks taxes should come from collected revenue and only spent after collected basically? Therefore nothing is created or borrowed?

I have no clue, but why do his words sound clear as a bell and why do his words remind me of a huge mirrory lake. .Thomas who?