"our debts being unfunded and unprovided for, the interest cannot be paid. those therefore who trusted us in the hour of distress are defrauded. to expect that under such circumstances others will confide in the government would be folly, and to expect that foreigners will trust a government which has no credit with its own citizens must be
the united states have call'd for eight million dollars early in november last, of which the first quarterly payment was to have been made on the first day of april next, but i cannot find that a single state has laid the taxes"
-robert morris, letter to the president of congress, 1782

what statement would the author most likely agree with?