How do you know a country is failing? When it punishes it's kids and students for the failures of its leaders and adults. 38 trillion in debt and sharing books is on the chopping block? Great work everyone!
Millions of tax dollars to facilitate the President's golfing trips to Florida, but God forbid people should have expanded access to books. That's what we get with an administration that doesn't value knowledge, led by a man who doesn't read. Shameful.
Speaking as a taxpaying citizen, I don’t mind paying a small amount in taxes for our library (although it should be voluntary vs mandatory), but I believe additional services that go above and beyond the basics of providing a local library should be paid for by the users. We are $37T in debt as a nation and we are a “welfare state” because we think that because something is “nice to have” we need to forcibly require taxpayers to fund it. That has to stop. We simply can’t keep going down the road we are in fiscally. As a state, we have started sooooo many programs because the broke federal government has been borrowing against future generations to send us these funds…and the chickens are now coming home to roost, sadly. More of our taxes should become user fees and if you don’t use the services, you don’t have to pay, but if you do use them and believe they are important, then you need to pay for them. And if there isn’t enough support, the program ceases. ILL is one of those that should be paid for by the users. And libraries would be free to fundraise and accept contributions to cover those services for folks who wanted to use the services but couldn’t afford to.
Paying a foreign dictator $6M to imprison people removed from the US without due process and in violation of a Federal court order is a helluva lot worse way to spend tax dollars than using public funds to promote literacy and reading. One violates democracy; the other promotes it
Maybe if we invested in our schools, we'd teach our kids to be better leaders. Republicans only believe that schools "indoctrinate" kids into not believing in the country or whatever silly ideas fox news comes up with. So they spend their time in the legislature making laws about not teaching CRT, which wasn't taught in this state anyway. Then we have the former governor, who didn't like the new social studies standards that were proposed, so she stacked the group to pass her paid for Hillsdale college version. How do these things teach anyone to think critically?
Everyone talks about building new prisons and rising healthcare costs, maybe if we invested in schools and taught people more when they were younger, crime would be less, people would be healthier, etc.
A funny thing about the deficit is that everyone complains about it, yet elects the same people back into Congress and state legislatures over and over, and they expect it to change, and they are angry that it doesn't.....it didn't get like this overnight, yet we have how many people in the Senate and house that have been there for decades...
How do you know a country is failing? When it punishes it's kids and students for the failures of its leaders and adults. 38 trillion in debt and sharing books is on the chopping block? Great work everyone!
Millions of tax dollars to facilitate the President's golfing trips to Florida, but God forbid people should have expanded access to books. That's what we get with an administration that doesn't value knowledge, led by a man who doesn't read. Shameful.
Depriving South Dakota libraries of necessary funding is basically book-burning by proxy...
Speaking as a taxpaying citizen, I don’t mind paying a small amount in taxes for our library (although it should be voluntary vs mandatory), but I believe additional services that go above and beyond the basics of providing a local library should be paid for by the users. We are $37T in debt as a nation and we are a “welfare state” because we think that because something is “nice to have” we need to forcibly require taxpayers to fund it. That has to stop. We simply can’t keep going down the road we are in fiscally. As a state, we have started sooooo many programs because the broke federal government has been borrowing against future generations to send us these funds…and the chickens are now coming home to roost, sadly. More of our taxes should become user fees and if you don’t use the services, you don’t have to pay, but if you do use them and believe they are important, then you need to pay for them. And if there isn’t enough support, the program ceases. ILL is one of those that should be paid for by the users. And libraries would be free to fundraise and accept contributions to cover those services for folks who wanted to use the services but couldn’t afford to.
Paying a foreign dictator $6M to imprison people removed from the US without due process and in violation of a Federal court order is a helluva lot worse way to spend tax dollars than using public funds to promote literacy and reading. One violates democracy; the other promotes it
Maybe if we invested in our schools, we'd teach our kids to be better leaders. Republicans only believe that schools "indoctrinate" kids into not believing in the country or whatever silly ideas fox news comes up with. So they spend their time in the legislature making laws about not teaching CRT, which wasn't taught in this state anyway. Then we have the former governor, who didn't like the new social studies standards that were proposed, so she stacked the group to pass her paid for Hillsdale college version. How do these things teach anyone to think critically?
Everyone talks about building new prisons and rising healthcare costs, maybe if we invested in schools and taught people more when they were younger, crime would be less, people would be healthier, etc.
A funny thing about the deficit is that everyone complains about it, yet elects the same people back into Congress and state legislatures over and over, and they expect it to change, and they are angry that it doesn't.....it didn't get like this overnight, yet we have how many people in the Senate and house that have been there for decades...
Hitler burned the books. Trump makes them unavailable. Same result. To what purpose?