Thread: Publishers STILL doing their best to screw the libraries?
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Old 07-17-2012, 03:06 AM   #67
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
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.
You are absolutely right. I meant to say $200 a year and that could very well be incorrect. My math is not always the best and of course homeowner grants lower some property taxes. I was using these figures.

http://www.sooke.ca/EN/main/governme...perty_tax.html

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