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Libraries are great. They should be funded with taxes by society, not the whims of charity. Raise taxes and on people like Bezos and Gates for the needs of so
by speedboat 9y ago
Libraries are great. They should be funded with taxes by society, not the whims of charity.
Raise taxes and on people like Bezos and Gates for the needs of society.
- throwaway91111 9y agoEhh i don't think Bezos and Gates are the issue; it's that services (like libraries and public transit) are raising the value of nearby land. We should tax the beneficiaries; ie the landowners who today profit off tax payer investments.
- zanny 9y agoSubsidized public roads also raise the value of land around which they are built, by giving you access to build something there. It isn't a specific group of landowners. These sources of profit created by public infrastructure simply and generally make people rich, so you need to tax the rich. I'm definitely not convinced disincentivizing people from living in walkable distance from libraries and public transit terminals is good. Sounds more like we need the opposite - incentivize walkability, build more libraries and public transit, and more generally incentivize higher density residential to cut down on the total amount of infrastructure needed, because our current scale is unsustainable with current tax models.