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Luxoriolu t1_je9spm6 wrote

Reply to comment by DancingConstellation in I read an article about Missouri’s House cutting funding to their libraries and it made me really sad. by poopmaester41

Ben Franklin literally said himself that public libraries and a well-informed public are essential for preventing future tyranny.

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DancingConstellation t1_je9t562 wrote

Respectfully, I couldn’t care less what Ben Franklin said. That’s not a compelling position. I would suggest that taxation, the mode for which these libraries largely exist and are funded, is tyranny. I think the market would deliver a superior product and variety of product, and more importantly it would be done through voluntary instead of coercive means

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