• corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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    3 years ago

    Mainly this is because the formation of the united states was only intended to be a means of paying off the debt for the revolutionary war and paying the continental armies pensions so the american state literally wasn’t designed to be capable of running a country.

    Have never heard that before, do you happen to have some reading I could do on it?

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Didn't George Washington only side with the revolutionaries because he was balls deep in debt and wouldn't be able to collect on people who owed him money if there was no system in place to enforce it?

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/loans

      there was an issue in that Virginia was the only state with the money to pay so the others needed their help paying for the war. As a result all the states formed one entity that could pay the debt