[WEB4LIB] Re: More Library News From the State of Washington

[Paul Taylor]

I have found (and this is simply an observation) that most people don't even 
realize who they are paying taxes to or what they are used to support.

For example, a patron in a neighboring district within our co-operative was 
upset. We will soon begin charging families in his municipality a borrowing 
charge. He doesn't want to use his own library, though, as he much prefers 
ours. So he asked, "Can't I just pay part of my taxes to you?"

<Paul shakes his head>

-Paul


On Wednesday 21 August 2002 02:13 pm, William M. Wines wrote:
> I hate to sound like a paleo-liberal, but I wonder whether most people
> ever seriously contemplate the extent to which their "quality of life"
> depends on the levying of taxes.  Political discourse is so completely
> dominated anti-gubmint conservative/libertarian blowhards that just to
> raise the issue risks being dismissed out of hand as just another
> bureaucrat feeding at the public trough.  Anyway, I know this is off
> topic, but grrrrrr.....
>
> -----------------------------
> Bill Wines
> Assistant Director
> Walled Lake City Library
> 1499 E. West Maple Rd.
> Walled Lake, MI 48390
> (248) 624-3772
> http://walled-lake.lib.mi.us
> -----------------------------
> "There may be nicer, smarter and better people than librarians
>  somewhere, but I don't know who they could be." --
> 		Denis Horgan, _Hartford Courant_, July 17, 2002

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Paul Taylor
Computer Coordinator
Salem-South Lyon District Library
9800 Pontiac Trail
South Lyon, MI 48178

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