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Side 220
If this effect of a sinking fund be correct, (and it would be difficult to contest its
correctness,) Adam Smith has evidently laboured under a mistake in thinking that
national debts could not be paid by means of savings from the ordinary revenue.
If this effect of a sinking fund be correct, (and it would be difficult to contest its
correctness,) Adam Smith has evidently laboured under a mistake in thinking that
national debts could not be paid by means of savings from the ordinary revenue.
Side 224
She never began to pay her creditors but when she created a sinking fund, and
she has liberated herself only as far as she has been allowed to do so by this
fund. Had things continued in this state, it would be obvious to any one, that
having ...
She never began to pay her creditors but when she created a sinking fund, and
she has liberated herself only as far as she has been allowed to do so by this
fund. Had things continued in this state, it would be obvious to any one, that
having ...
Side 226
be effected in an instant, nothing can result from it but a gradual and successive
diminution of the acknowledgments of the public debt, a return to the circulating
capital of the funds that had been abstracted from it, and the re-establishment of ...
be effected in an instant, nothing can result from it but a gradual and successive
diminution of the acknowledgments of the public debt, a return to the circulating
capital of the funds that had been abstracted from it, and the re-establishment of ...
Side 227
... at least ten or twelve per cent. A sinking fund would therefore be a real loss to
public and private wealth, if it could be dispensed with. But can a public debt
keep its full value without a sinking fund, particularly when it forms a fifth of the ...
... at least ten or twelve per cent. A sinking fund would therefore be a real loss to
public and private wealth, if it could be dispensed with. But can a public debt
keep its full value without a sinking fund, particularly when it forms a fifth of the ...
Side 228
Thus, in whatever way Lord Lauderdale's criticism of the sinking fund be viewed,
it appears to rest on erroneous notions, contrary to the true principles and
essence of a sinking fund. - Finally, it has been observed by Adam Smith, that “
the ...
Thus, in whatever way Lord Lauderdale's criticism of the sinking fund be viewed,
it appears to rest on erroneous notions, contrary to the true principles and
essence of a sinking fund. - Finally, it has been observed by Adam Smith, that “
the ...
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