Erica Hickey QuikSubmitted Could fees be the answer to library crisis? from The Pittspurgh Post-Gazette on the libraries in PA.
The budgets are being cut by an amazing 50 percent this year, they say a stagnant economy coupled with a powerful White House so determined to cut taxes so deeply that airport security budgets have been reduced produces a gloomy picture for libraries.
“In return, we average folks will have more money to spend — a whopping 1 percent, if we’re lucky, after the latest federal tax cut — so we have it to support our favorite endangered institution, the library, while we wait for the economy to take off again.
In a way, paying for libraries returns them to the days of Carnegie’s youth, when they were the private domain of the rich. We can only hope that there are modern Col. James Andersons around to let us use them.”
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