Some of those are interesting
and some are a bit misguided.
For instance...#3 says borrowing to pay for war is bad...but in #4 they seem to agree that deficits are at least somewhat beneficial, as long as they aren't protracted.
Other places seem to ignore effects of tranfer between parties (people, countries) when making the blanket statement "we are no better off". Well at a macro enough level it is certainly a zero sum game (subtract value of iron ore removed from the ground from steel produced because the ore came from the earth at an asset cost...yadda)...so no matter what we do...in their view we will never be any better off economically.
Glad is all theoretical.
