The people who benefit from the intelligence gained by people who use libraries don't pay for that benefit. Each day hundreds of people, many of them families with children, use the library to learn how to read, how to find things on the internet, facts about nature, science and they work to get a job. When the populace is more highly educated, they make contributions to society. Those contributions from using a library are free to the rest of society. I am glad to pay the tiny amount I pay to make our people better educated, more employable and informed voters.

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