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Does the Size of the National Debt Matter?

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Published: 6 April 2009

Some things a person does owe to himself–intangibles like respect, integrity, responsibility. “This above all, to thine own self be true.” But such duties to self are not a debt in the usual sense of a repayable loan or obligation.

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