By Anna Davlantes
(FOX Chicago News) – They eat up millions of your hard earned tax dollars. It’s money that could be used to keep your child’s school running. So with the internet and e-books, do we really need millions for libraries?
There are 799 public libraries in Illinois. And they’re busy. People borrow more than 88 million times a year.
But keeping libraries running costs big money. In Chicago, the city pumps $120 million a year into them. In fact, a full 2.5 percent of our yearly property taxes go to fund them.
That’s money that could go elsewhere – like for schools, the CTA, police or pensions
Read the rest: Illinois Budget Crisis | Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?.
July 1, 2010
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More proof that Faux News isn’t in the business of reporting the news.
Considering the source here, one has to conclude they have their heads up their asses.
It’s not so much that as it is that they’re actually opposed to educated or informed citizens (who, let’s be honest, aren’t a significant portion of their viewer base or target demographic). Supposing that money were cut back from libraries… do you really think they’d spend a penny of it on pensions or schools/teachers? No way; it’ll go for police, prisons, or corporate welfare of some flavor.