as you probably know, hamilton is responsible for funding the debt, and assuming all of the state debts. hamilton funding assumption. funding a debt and paying off a debt are not the same thing. they are in some ways opposites. we know this when we make payments on credit cards, we are not paying them off when we make the minimum payment. this is a funny thing that has happened to hamilton's legacy. it is not just that most people don't get it. i will be do something quickly from the internet. if you put in a few search terms around hamilton, debt, etc., you can get this. paying for the revolutionary war was the start of the country's debt, true. some of the founding fathers formed a group and borrowed money from france and the netherlands to pay for the war. that is also true, that is where that entry stops on the war debt. john adams went over there, he negotiated, blah blah. the foreign debt is not the important part of the debt. the domestic debt is what drives all of the issues we still do with today. it was substantially larger in numbers and overwhelmingly more important. but the fact that some website gets