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Library has a vote this year to add about $4-5 a month to people's taxes, so that they can build a bigger one (old one is from 1990, when the town was 15,000 people, we're at 34,000 now). Emailed ALL the alderman what direction I was hoping they'd vote.

Obviously everyone hates additional charges, but we've saved over $1500 this year alone on book checkouts, we benefit from this move (more books! more programs!) All the rich people in town are *bitching their head off* that they have to help. The library we have now is "just fine" (they don't go!)

As a single man with no kids, my preferred argument right back at them is "I have to pay for YOUR kids' school because it's a public good, so even if YOU don't go to the library, you should pay for the library for OTHER people as a public good, because that's FAIR."

Some of them argue we should use the money to fix the highschool or build a new one, and then the SAME people also complain when town goes "okay, this is what it will cost to fix/build" None of them care beyond their own nose. I prefer educated kids. Even before we had one lol