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Nope, young enough to be paying interest on the debt ;P

No worries, the interest on the debt is being paid with more debt. You're off the hook!

usefulcat comments on the Accoustic Kitty thread. Wheels within wheels! :)

He used present tense so I'm not sure he was aware it occurred in the 1960s before jumping the gun to complain about taxes.

You have grasped the purpose of my tongue-in-cheek comment!

(And given me an opportunity to make another one!)

Really, though, ... there's worse things tax dollars have been spent on in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

If they are to add the word "were," it would be consistent. ;)

The poster being old enough to have paid taxes that paid for bonds which funded those activities doesn't seem unlikely.