"It is both instructive and revealing that the Tea Party would challenge so energetically such a hallowed institution as the public library. One hundred-eighty years almost to the day the Kentucky circuit courts issued their decisions, the good citizens of Peterborough, New Hampshire created a radical, uniquely American concept—a taxpayer-supported library. All town residents, regardless of income, had the right to freely share the community’s stored knowledge. Their only obligation was to return the information on time and in good condition, allowing others to exercise that same right. The Tea Party argues that a library tax increase of any size, no matter how trivial, is unwarranted because of economic hardship. A far more compelling argument is that times of economic distress demand a larger, not as smaller information commons." alternet.org/economy/tea-party-wages-war-public-libraries?paging=off
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:29:41 +0000
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