Let me clarify something. Local libraries aren't free. Home owners must pay a local library tax. My bill is $495/year.
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Let’s also not forget the significant return on investment from libraries that we see proven in study after studyhttps://medium.com/everylibrary/the-return-on-investment-from-your-public-library-is-unbelievable-93603caac530 …
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And while you’re right, Libraries are not free, they ARE worth every penny.https://medium.com/everylibrary/libraries-are-not-free-and-they-re-worth-every-dollar-e436e70f672a …
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LRT: The fact that the man who wants to eliminate a public resource that costs most of us pennies per day, and "substitute" it with a corporation that makes $$billions$$ by paying no taxes and exploiting its employees, as he sits as Econ Dept chair at a university, is...telling.
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It makes me question the quality of the economics department at
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An econ professor should know better that, on top of everything else, public libraries adjust for market failure, as Joel Waldfogel has documented.http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674025813 …
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Bookstores only open where there's a market; plenty of places can't support a book store. Before anyone notes that Amazon ships, keep in mind that for-profit shipping (FedEx, UPS, etc) relies on the US Postal Service for many addresses because it's not profitable to ship to them.
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It's all of those things but more than that, it's both deeply ideological and solipsistic.
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SIS WENT OFF
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do you think i could drown from someone ?
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