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slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
=In article <t!+mx-h.greg@netcom.com>, greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
=> In article <1992Jul14.182915.14499@queernet.org> rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
=>>In article <jx#mzy.greg@netcom.com> greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
=>>>Why not have LOCAL services funded via the LOCAL level?
=
=>>So that poorer areas with lower tax bases, which have perhaps a greater
=>>need for these resources, can be covered.
=
=> An interesting rhetorical red herring, that. It doesn't hold up, though.
=> Virtually every county and most cities in California have both poor and
=> affluent aspects to them. I cannot think of too many cities, and I
=> can't think of any counties, who are so categorically poverty-stricken
=> that they should not be able to afford a respectable public library
=> system. Now perhaps there are those who are mis-managed or those
=> whose priorities lie elsewhere, but that's another story, now
=> isn't it?
=
=Not to mention places like LA where the local hoodlums
=recently burned theirs down.  Should we be build them
=a new one to put the torch to?

That argument does not hold any weight at all, since more libraries leads to
less of these stupid hoodlums, which means less of a chance for it to burn
down.  Although this still doesn't answer the question of how they should be
funded, nor does it eliminate the possibility that they shouldn't be funded
for a different reason.

In a different response to Greg Bullough, fred_s@earwax.pei.com (Fred Scott) writes:
=You can't be serious?!?  How can you possibly compare a Saratoga with an
=East Palo Alto in terms of ability to pay for local services.  Sorry, buddy,
=IT HOLDS UP!!!

It's true that cities cannot be seen as the same in this way.  However,
nobody has argued against Greg's statement as it applies to counties.  Let
me try by asking if rural counties (e.g. Humbolt, the county that Eureka is
in) can afford these sorts of services to the same degree that an urban
county can.

In response to Fred's statement immediately above, greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
= Isn't East Palo Alto in the same county with Los Altos Hills?
=
= Therefore, in a county library system, East PA should have the
= same services as Los Altos Hills.

No.  Although I see where you probably went wrong - Palo Alto, Los Altos
Hills, and Saratoga are all in Santa Clara County, but East Palo Alto is in
San Mateo County.


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