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Yeah, one of my earliest memories was going to what was likely a Carnegie library with my mother and coming home with "Elmer and the Dragon". It's a treasured fragment, and anyway the libraries were a substantial and meaningful gift. But in context? We should not have to go to a king with our begging bowl to finance the General Welfare. Conservatives regularly condemn taxation as theft, but what are low wages and extortionate prices when oligarchs rule the roost?

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