Library levy in my county...

[Bigmack]

The local paper has a piece on the Library levy today, and the comments online are all very negative. "NO, NO... AND NO!" being typical.

I posted this:

Bigmack writes:

Wow... the budget of the KRL is $10 Million a year.

That's a lot of money.

Not as much as the (at least) $100 Billion per year this country spends on the Afghanistan war... ($1 million X 100,000 troops.. "contractors" not included)

But then of course, we get more benefit from the libraries.

Lemme see...rough figures with no accounting for population differences.... $100 Billion divided by 50 states = $2 billion per state. So our state share is $2 Billion. 39 counties in Washington, so Kitsap county's share is $51.3 million.

Five times the library budget for NOTHING!

AND YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT $10 MILLION FOR THE LIBRARY!

WAKE UP!!!

[dkf]

1. Afghanistan hasn't been paid for.

Maybe if we were asking to raise taxes through a levy people would be just as opposed as they are to the library.

[Bigmack]

2. Novel idea! nt

[jaksavage]

3. Our library closed

and a second try at a levy to reopen is on the ballot.
All the squealing over high taxes but no one ever mentions the 50% of tax funds going to our constant war machine.
Cut the waste from gov't, halve the military budget, as a start.