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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And a national debt that took 200 years to reach a trillion bucks, tripled in two presidential terms.
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On that same day, the Treasury Department will run out of money to pay off the national debt .
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The government raised £1,500,000,000 from loans and taxes, while the national debt leapt from £242,900,000 in 1793 to £744,900,000 in 1815.
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The implications for one major question of dynamic incidence - the burden of the national debt - are developed in Section 8-5.
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The result was the ballooning national debt .