Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

Re:Ditch Starbucks and work at the library by mberning on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @01:46PM (#2194202)

They may or may not, but I would put money on a majority of them not paying income tax due to the large number of homeless and vagrants.

But that is beside the point. Paying taxes does not give you the right to a) break the rules (surfing porn IS against the rules) and b) causes an environment that is not conducive to the intended use (i.e. a filthy environment that drives away legitimate users)

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Re:Ditch Starbucks and work at the library by JacobAldridge on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @02:00PM (#2194276)

I think the porn thing (which is as much about rules not being enforced as anything) can be separated from "facebook and myspace pages, and youtube", which were part of your original point.

Is it just the vagrants watching porn that pisses you off? That's maybe caring too much about the topic, but it raises a fair point.

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Re:Ditch Starbucks and work at the library by Semiapies on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @02:30PM (#2194407)

Homeless folks still have to pay sales taxes in most places.

People breaking the rules is certainly a valid complaint. However, I'm not aware of libraries banning YouTube (if people are using headphones), Facebook, or whatnot.

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Re:Ditch Starbucks and work at the library by WildUtah on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @03:34AM (#2196840)

Homeless folks still have to pay sales taxes

And a lot of cigarette taxes and booze excise taxes. Really poor people pay a much larger proportion of their incomes in taxes.

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