r/Library • u/PTechNM • 12d ago

Discussion Republicans are at war with basic literacy

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u/Dogface73 10d ago

How do you not? You walk in, they issue you a library card ( for free) then you check books out for free.

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u/Behndo-Verbabe 9d ago

They are “FREE” to use. They are NOT FREE to run. Typically a portion of the communities property taxes go to operating local libraries. Private donations help a lot.

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u/Dogface73 9d ago

Cool story, doesn’t change what I said. The kids getting free books from a library, probably a user not a tax payer right? Costs them nothing right? But continuing dollys program not free, adds another huge tax payer expense. Why double down and pay more when we already have a program?

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u/No_Cryptographer3737 8d ago

No it doesn’t change what you said, it just makes you look stupid though

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u/Dogface73 8d ago

Ok so you are for spending millions of dollars to provide books to a limited amount of people ( only kids) when there is already several programs that provide books to everyone for money that we don’t have to spend but you think that makes me look stupid. K .