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Re:Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are... by FiveSquared on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:30PM (#18242100)
Nah, the rich were only able to afford libraries. Now that they are "free (with taxes of course)," anyone can use it. You can use the same logic for school. You want schools to be paid? Okay, then the poor wouldn't be able to afford anything and they are stuck in a ever-looping hole of poverty.
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Re:Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are... by solarwind on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:53PM (#18242408)
According to this it is a non-profit corporation open to the public. A corporation is just a legal structure around ownership interest. The corporate shareholder structure allowed the shareholders to collectively share their books in the library which they provided to the public. Nothing about being exclusive to the rich.

Income is a continuum. Schooling (not to be confused with education) at its essence is just a room with a teacher, pupils and study materials. It can be realistically attained by nearly all income levels but the extreme lowest.

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