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Sinking fund
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SINKING FUND. A fund arising from particular taxes, imposts, or duties, which is appropriated towards the payment of the interest due on a public loan and for the gradual payment of the principal. See Funding System.



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Other writings presented include the Social catechism (1784), Replies to the principal objections that can be made against a single tax (1789), Reflections on the issue of assignats (1790), The New system of taxation established by the national assembly of France in 1791 (1791), and Theoretical considerations about sinking funds of public debt (1801).
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