Republican candidates for the presidency echo the arguments of Mr Morgenthau, claiming that deficit-financed stimulus spending has done little but add to the obligations of future taxpayers.
Speaking for the majority, Trimble declared that a state insolvency law does not impair the obligations of future contracts between citizens of that state.
Infrastructure investments, even if not immediately paid for with new revenue sources, can easily contribute to reductions in long-term debt-to-income ratios because they spur economic growth, raise long-run capacity, and reduce the obligations of future generations.
Inevitably therefore, they lose the sense of obligation to future generations.
The vice president contended that these issues were, like Bosnia and other foreign policy challenges, urgent matters not only of national interest but of moral obligation to future generations.
It's about keeping us safe, and paying forward on an obligation to future generations of Americans.
While we owe the first systematic discussion of obligations to future people within a theory of justice to John Rawls (see Section 4.4), Derek Parfit's work has defined the problems of how we can and should relate to future people (see esp. Section 3).
Intergenerational ethics, also called obligations to future generations, branch of ethics that considers if present-day humanity has a moral obligation to future generations to aim for environmental sustainability.
As an official, appointed by the national Parliament, and charged with representing the interests of the public, the Commissioner ensures the better understanding of our obligations to future generations.
(c) Proposal (c) involves a form of rule consequentialism that, rather than struggling to avoid, simply exploits two naïve mistakes that many people may well make when they first begin to think about their obligations in respect of future persons.
