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Re: Libitarian guff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 02:42:10 GMT
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weird problem..
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Franks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
>
> > > A community I lived in for a while didn't have access to a public library,
> > > because the majority (but not an overwhelming majority -- something like
> > > 60%) of the people who lived there didn't want to pay the few cents in
> > > taxes to join the regional library program. And it wasn't because they were
> > > building a privately-held public library of their own.
> >
> > So move to a community which does have a library.
>
> That's fine for the people who can afford to do so. Wouldn't this create a set
> of uber communities that had all the services, and lower class communities • that
> had no services and people couldn't afford to move out of? Seriously, why not
> just send them down the mines just now?
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> How are children supposed to move to different community anyway? Or is it fine
> to deny them the right to educate themselves because the concept of tax is
> supposedly evil?
>
> I would take your comment as being flippant, but I do believe that it reflects
> Libitarian policy regarding the funding of social services, which is the scary
> part.
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> > > I would submit that universal education and access to libraries (whether or
> > > not a right) are good things. I'm not convinced that this would happen in a
> > > purely free capitalist system.
> >
> > If it's worth the cost, it will happen. If it isn't worth the cost, then it
> > isn't worth the cost.
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> Worth the cost to whom? Libitarian views suggest that services would be
> provided by third party service providers. What if education needs subsidies -
> ie the majority of parents can't afford to give their children an education
> without taxes?
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> Ah - move to a different community and leave the poor people to their mud?
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> > Another thought, I think many of the longer existing
> > public libraries were actually established with a lot of donated money.
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> Possibly because those who were born in a time of low educational access
> realise the true value of libraries, whereas we seem to take them for granted
>
> Richard
>
> PS. Please don't take my tone personally, the impact that Libitarian policies
> could have is just sinking in to me.. although I may have misinterpreted :)
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