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Originally Posted by rkomar
I'm not sure how you are computing that. It's true that a single person's taxes are only a fraction of the total. However, it's also true that a person will only checkout a small fraction of the books in the library. So, I don't think it's right to spread a person's taxes over thousands of books and then say they are only paying a tiny amount for any particular book they borrow. You are ignoring all the books they pay for that they don't borrow.
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Why not, if one insists 'I pay taxes which support the library, thus I am paying for books', it follows that an assessment of how much they are actually paying should be made. Just because they do not use the full digital or physical library, nor the other services provided by a library does not mean whatever percentage of their taxes that has gone to the library isn't distributed among those services.
Also it's not like a single person is paying taxes, the larger the population the smaller your individual contribution likely is.
I'd also point out that by your logic those with low income who pay less in taxes would be less entitled to the books than those with higher tax rates, since that money goes to pay for more books. Obviously you can see that this goes against the whole point of libraries in the modern age.