I sincerely believe ... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. (Thomas Jefferson)

I sincerely believe ... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

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