And that's too bad. Put another way, that's 75 cents per month. Put yet another way, that's 17 cents per week. Four new libraries for just 2.5 cents per day. But even this scaled-back plan faces political trouble.
Libraries are vitally important to any real city, especially for the less well-off.
People who can't afford computers or an Internet connection at home can find them at the library. Students can do school research and youngsters just learning to read can find inspiration and knowledge on trips to the library. And that's why we should have more of them. Nobody likes taxes, but there are few things more worthy of tax dollars than libraries. If we can build palaces for government, we should at least be able to afford a few libraries.