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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 31

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Chris Freiman

    What if instead of libraries we gave the poor tax credits to buy books (means tested, of course).https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1531590110600384512 …

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    Chris Freiman @cafreiman
    Public libraries aren’t actually a socialist success story—the truly progressive position is to privatize libraries, run them on a subscription basis, and transfer the spared tax $ to the poor (who could then spend it on a subscription if they preferred that to all other uses)
    11:51 AM - 31 May 2022
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      1. ReasonableMindDiffering‏ @RDiffering May 31
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        Really, I think it would be a great help to the poor if all books were written in a dead language which only clergy and high officials could read. That sounds good, right?

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      1. Joseph Fink,  👻 🎃healthcare is a human right 🎃 👻‏ @PlanetofFinks May 31
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        ah that's the stuffpic.twitter.com/AVVidQs6Pl

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      1. Hal Ashton‏ @hal_ashton May 31
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        They could each buy one book, then they could pool those books in some sort of semi organised structure so that once they had read that book, they could swap it for another one and so on.

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      1. Brad Neuberg‏ @bradneuberg May 31
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        /s

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      1. Simon Sankoff‏ @SimonSankoff May 31
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        "Why should working Americans pay for Donald Trump's children to be able to check out a book for free?" - Pete Buttiegieg

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      2. The Millenial Funky Winkerbean‏ @prof_rev May 31
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        I wonder what think tank he’s auditioning for

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      3. A Dream About Being A Person‏ @TheVagueBlur May 31
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        ghostwriter for megan mcardle

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      1. please send help because we are in trouble‏ @ouisequitur May 31
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      1. Richard Lorant‏ @richard_lorant May 31
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        Any means testing must take into account the value of the knowledge gained from reading the books. Do you really want some fourth-year anaesthesiology resident with a temporarily negative net worth just reading books on drug interactions on the public dole?

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      1. BocaChef76‏ @BChef76 May 31
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        A 16 step voucher system!

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