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Originally Posted by John F
I would guess that there are other "taxes" that also help fund libraries.
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Every town can be different, but most of the local revenue for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh is NOT from property taxes. And a lot of library revenue comes from state funds that aren’t property tax related.
It used to be that fines might make up a good chunk of public library revenue, but this obviously disappears with eBooks, and some libraries are forgiving fines.
In my township, there is no local income tax, and no local sales tax, so library revenue is very property tax dependent. That combination is unusual for my state but apparently common elsewhere in the U.S.