Quote:
Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Libraries in Canada are mainly funded by property taxes. The average property owner's or renter's tax going to the library are about $20 a year as far as I can determine by looking at various mill rates. I myself have borrowed as many as 20 books in a month and have requested many books by inter-library loans. What independent business can compete with that?
Helen
|
I think you are off by almost an order of magnitude on how much libraries cost - the average homeowner pays $113 annually in property taxes for the Toronto public library; this is roughly similar to what equivalent libraries cost in the US.