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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Why not simply give them access to the entire library and raise their parent's property taxes a bit?
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In a democracy? Whether or not property taxes should pay for books lots of people find disgusting or dangerous will be a perpetual political football. Even if the kind of politicians you may favor gain office, they won't always win, and when they do, they'll compromise. As a result, your system is not going to lead to as wide a variety of books as you can buy with MasterCard, VISA, or PayPal.
It's true that we already have public libraries, and, in most places, controversies over what books they stock are muted. But your idea seems specifically designed to widen the range of publicly provided reading material, and thus widen such controversies.