Quick look at the argument for more resources desperately needed by an institution that provides so many valuable services to the community up to and including offering hobos a place to hangout during extreme weather.
Here's the pitch:
Here's the pitch:
Kansas City Public Library Will Ask Voters For An 8-Cent Levy Increase
The Kansas City Public Library will ask voters in November to increase the property tax that helps fund its operations. Library officials announced Wednesday morning that they would seek an 8 cent increase to the 47 cents the library system now receives for every $100 of assessed valuation.
Libraries are a good asset to any community and serve a useful purpose to all people of the community. Supporting the library is a good use of taxpayer funds providing city hall does not make the proposed tax increase another slush fund for the mayor.
ReplyDeleteWho uses the library these days. The poor without the inter net at home and the homeless. Free wifi and one way bus tickets to Florida would be cheaper.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with your statement is that it's an opinion as many think it is not a good use of taxpayer funding and many do not want to see their ever increasing property taxes inflated even more. Funding the library should not be done at gunpoint or under threat of losing your house
ReplyDeleteIf Kansas City had not been giving away the Library's money for so many years under Barnes and James they wouldn't have had to ask for tax increases.
ReplyDeleteSTOP TIF!
"Who uses the library these days. The poor without the inter net at home and the homeless. Free wifi and one way bus tickets to Florida would be cheaper."
ReplyDeletePeople who know when to use a question mark and that internet is one word for starters.
^^Ha! that geezer got run!
ReplyDelete12:12pm hit the jackpot.
ReplyDeleteAs fast as the library folks can raise their tax levy, Sly, the city hall gang, and the clowns on the TIF Commission will give it away.
Want to see it again?
There's one born every minute!
I would be glad to chip in more for the library, but the downtown bums should have to do so as well, since they mostly live there.
ReplyDeleteno. get rid of TIFS and raise taxes on property more than half an acre
ReplyDeleteThe open stacks library model is DEAD. Why is it that the first solution to every perceived problem at city hall is to raise taxes? The library already receives generous funding. Let them learn how to live within their means.
ReplyDeleteIf the city wants places for the poor to go and listen to music and play on the internet in bad weather, lets do that apart from the library.
When do the folks in the tax exempt luxury apartments get to pay.
ReplyDeleteI already pay for a library system (Mid Continent) through my property taxes, even though I live in KCMO. Does that mean I will be taxed again for the KCMO library? Right now, all library systems are nothing more than free DVD distribution centers, free computers for folks to play video games, and space for the homeless to set up camp.
ReplyDelete^^^^Amazingly I was able to check out a book just this week.
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