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h He also advocated that the national debt should be eliminated. He did not believe that living individuals had a moral obligation to repay the debts of previous generations. He said that repaying such debts was "a question of generosity and not of right."[40]
Jefferson founded the Republican Party in 1792 and fully defined what the first American Revolution had been about (freedom from liberal government) with his Second American Revolution of 1800.
Yes, he wanted to eliminate the debt and prevent any further federal debt. In fact, Republicans since Jefferson have introduced 30 Balanced Budget Amendments and liberals have killed all 30 of them.
Jefferson thought America had, in effect , made liberalism illegal.
The debt has been paid off once in our history, and it was by a Democrat president.
I see you still are having trouble with political ideologies, and political parties but keep at it, some day it will Gestalt and bingo you'll have it.