Via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A group of antitax crusaders is trying to dissolve the county\’s libraries. Leaders of the campaign to eliminate the Stevens County Rural Library District said they are tired of paying property taxes for something that helps people largely in the most out-of-the-way crannies of the county, where a majority of the county libraries lie. Besides, they said, rural libraries are increasingly obsolete because of the Internet, video outlets and discount bookstores . . .
\”With all the property I own, I\’m probably paying up to $500 in taxes for the library, and that\’s just $500 wasted on something we don\’t need,\” said one supporter of the measure, Dave Sitler, a real estate agent.
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