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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!)

"our taxes will go up to $7500!!" congrats on living in a 600,000 dollar house? Maybe go check out some fucking books. Or the fishing pole. Or go release ladybugs with your grand kids. "We have the internet, what's the point?" you don't live in this town ALONE. There are OTHER PEOPLE HERE.

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."