Anonymous #4 1d

Also we have a very severe literacy crisis. It would be a terrible idea to remove free libraries

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Anonymous #1 1d

Nah not my post but I posted something similar a while back. Certain places like libraries, cafes, fast food restraunrs dunkin donut ect.. become camping grounds for homeless people and drug addicts and get ruined for the rest of us

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Anonymous #2 1d

I mean paper. iPads, phones, computers Kindle’s ect… exist. No point in physically going to library to read

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Anonymous #4 1d

Even the few times before that I visited it’s always homeless people and boomers without computers. Or little whose parents don’t want to look after them

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Anonymous #3 1d

Have u ever been to any public facility brother? Go to one then report back here. Spend at least an hour

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Anonymous OP 1d

Oh wow you’re like actually fucking braindead You’re right, libraries don’t own anything important lol. They don’t need funding. Ignore the fact they often have massive historical archives, communal resources, that not every book has been digitized, that there’s stuff housed there not available for checkout, or anything like that. Not that you would know bc you clearly don’t give a shit abt what resources libraries actually have

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Anonymous #2 1d

Ban homeless people and drug addicts and I wouldn’t have a problem. Libraries aren’t very safe anymore. Less regular people go which was a big deterrence for that and now it’s just a influx of the bad crowd. Literally just becomes a camping ground.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Bruh I LIVE HERE yes I have 😭 how tf you call our cities shitholes and then cry when we successfully fund our facilities like there’s nothing that will make you mfs happy

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Anonymous #5 1d

We just balanced our budget…

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Anonymous OP 1d

Seems like a good amount of people that get use out of it, no?

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Anonymous OP 1d

You just admitted to not stepping into a library for three years bar one instance. Quit acting like you know the day in day out experience of how it is in a library lmao

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Anonymous #2 1d

Bro I’ll literally go to 3 different public libraries tomorrow and take a picture and it’s just gonna be the type of people I said. I deadass want one of yall to spend a day at the library and come back here. Public libraries aren’t like our highscool or college ones bro

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Anonymous OP 1d

You know what my hometown library does? It holds classical guitar concerts, it has art shows, it has movie rentals, kids summer camps, crafts nights, audiobooks subscriptions, free internet and computers, and thousands of books. I have driven an hour away to a massive public library in a nearby city because it had an exhibition of rare local Native American artifacts.

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Anonymous #3 1d

And how did they get the money for that?

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Anonymous OP 1d

It’s funny because even throughout high school I would hang at my local library (not my high school one) because I was living with abusive parents, and in that entire time period not once experienced any problems with any of the people there. That includes homeless people. You’re just afraid of homeless people because you haven’t interacted with any for more than five seconds

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Anonymous #5 1d

Taxing people who you will never have anything to do with in your life. Cope

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Anonymous #6 1d

The library in my new town is a center for community. It holds game nights, support groups, crafts classes, instrument clubs, writing classes, health seminars, pine needle basket weaving (sad I missed that). It’s a center for community and for education and I swear to GOD how in the year 2026 do you not realize it’s important to have physical media that doesn’t require a subscription.

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Anonymous #2 1d

I’m sure OP think though me avoiding my parents was just me being a bum though, because in other comments they’ve said people like me “ruined” public spaces

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Anonymous #1 1d

So the vast majority of people? Why are you guys taxing so many New Yorkers?

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Anonymous #5 1d

Probly by making it so the fucks who spend a day a year in a 300 million dollar penthouse on 57th st not able to dodge taxes anymore

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Anonymous #3 1d

Rich people dodge taxes? Since when?

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Anonymous #5 1d

So that was sarcasm right

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Anonymous #6 1d

art show, concert summer camp, and free internet are the only valid things you listed. And I don’t have a problem with the libraries themselves just that they mostly attract homeless and drug addicts then ruin stuff like art shows and concerts for everybody else

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Anonymous #2 1d

Well clearly you should have just bought yourself a kindle and…idk hidden in the closet? God forbid someone use a public space

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Anonymous #3 1d

Nope. Not New York but this is how much Elon Musk paid in taxes

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Anonymous #6 1d

This actually got me looking at the calendar and there’s another pine needle basket weaving class next week. Definitely gonna go to that.

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Anonymous #6 1d

Yeah OP prob is gonna say that i should have just done that lmaoooo

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Anonymous #5 1d

Yes bro. Yes, rich people dodge taxes.

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Anonymous #6 1d

Community centers and public spaces like library’s can be good if they are done correctly and security is appropriately enforced. Yall know exactly what I mean but acting dense. When I walk up to the door I don’t want to be greeted by a homeless man sleeping at the door and have no idea if he’s gonna attack me. Then that makes me not want to visit those public spaces anymore

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Anonymous #2 1d

Also like tbh, feels like they might have an underfunded library and are just basing this on that. The library in my hometown is extremely well funded and it’s incredible. $9 million budget.

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Anonymous #1 1d

The richest person in the world didn’t…

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Anonymous OP 1d

Tbh i just haven’t had that happen at any of the public libraries i have frequented. Also if he’s sleeping just leave the guy be he’s not bothering you. They’re not rabid.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Name three people you know irl who have been attacked by a homeless person and required hospitalization. Go on, I’ll wait

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Anonymous #5 1d

Damn I wish I was being taxed 1.3 PERCENT of my net worth. Like holy shit

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Anonymous #6 1d

Also I gotta say the entitlement in the original post is wild. Not everyone has $100 for a Chromebook. Especially kids.

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Anonymous #5 1d

Lemme ask you something. I just paid something like 20% of my income to federal, and even more to state. You’re telling me he only paid 11 billion dollars?

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Anonymous #6 1d

We have a library in my community which which only residents can use. That one has zero homeless people and drug addicts because the community is gated and they have actual security in the neighborhood. But it’s a ghost town because everyone in my neighborhood owns a laptop and kindle already or books at home. Only time it’s ever used is like 2 weeks in summer bc they do something for kids

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Anonymous #3 1d

That’s standard? Why do you need more of his and our money? Just so you can read more books? All books are available online for FREE if you look hard enough. If you really want a hard copy, just buy a book. I don’t want to pay for your book.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Only 11 billion dollars? lol. You say only but you guys are begging for that 11 billion dollars

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Anonymous #5 1d

No bro…be serious. Getting taxed at such a low rate is not standard at all. How do you file your own taxes and then lie to us like this.

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Anonymous #1 1d

I was at a similar rate and I’m not rich by any means

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Anonymous #5 1d

Yes. 11 billion dollars is a lot. Because he is extraordinarily wealthy. And should be taxed more because of it. Ignoring that this guy has also killed hundreds of thousands of people and has helped ruin America’s government for probably decades.

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Anonymous #5 1d

Exactly! He should be taxed at a higher rate because he’s rich. He shouldn’t be taxed as the same rate as you.

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Anonymous #5 1d

Dawg, please be real. You actually think Elon Musk is being taxed at the same rate as you.

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Anonymous #6 1d

I disagree. He shouldn’t be punished just because he makes more than me. And I do not like Elon musk at all

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Anonymous #1 1d

I mean according to this it seems like it

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Anonymous #5 1d

What kind of fuckass math are you employing rn bro

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Anonymous #6 1d

And bro they literally made the chromebooks that price so everybody can afford. $100 is for a brand new one. You can get a used one for $10-50

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Anonymous OP 1d

Can’t notice you haven’t been able to answer my question

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Anonymous #2 1d

What question

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Anonymous #3 1d

Not even doing math just mentally visualizing rate based on the amount I paid when filing my taxes and my net worth and comparing it to Elon’s. Seems to be about the same to me

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Anonymous #5 1d

That’s not a punishment. Thats just him already having more money than he could possibly need in a human lifetime. A very poor person needs all the money they can get. A 5% tax rate could ruin them. Someone like Elon musk won’t even notice if he loses 5% of his money. That’s just a number to him. He could lose 80% of his money and it wouldn’t affect his quality of life at all.

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Anonymous #6 1d

I wouldn’t mind lowering the tax rate. Like you said, it doesn’t matter if Elon is taxed 5 or 80 percent, but it matters if the poor person is taxed 5 percent. Why not just lower the tax rate then? Problem solved!

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Anonymous #5 1d

Do you expect to fix our debt or budget deficits any time within the next 500 years?

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Anonymous #5 1d

Because we need to fund infrastructure. This is why poor people should be taxed very little and rich people should be taxed more. That’s the entire conceit of a progressive tax rate.

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Anonymous #3 1d

Probably not going to happen but idk

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Anonymous #6 1d

I agree but we don’t need to be taxed that much. Why do we need libraries? There’s even more useless stuff that gets paid by our tax money. We can reduce the rate and still have the infrastructure we need

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Anonymous #5 1d

Libraries do so much more tangible good than so much of the dumb other shit we spend taxes on. Like we are funneling billions into more guns for cops, bombs for Israel, and corn subsidies. But you’re worried about the libraries.

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Anonymous #6 1d

Because the original post is about libraries? Trust me I don’t want to fund wars either

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Anonymous #5 1d

The point is libraries, parks, roads, rec centers, county pools are all things that actually benefit local people. Stuff with tangible benefits to the local communities. Of all the shit we pay our taxes for, those public services actually go back to the community.

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