[Publib] Non-Resident use

[Steve Benson]

Sure, but am I in Texas expected to support the local public school system
in Boston?  In some way I will benefit from their educated citizenry.  If I
wished to attend a public university in another state I'd likely pay higher
fees than students of that state.  Point is that there are limits that are
imposed upon some ideals.

If you deny the reality that there are gray areas and that there are
circumstances that can justify fees, then I think you throw away your
ability to operate effectively within the political environment that every
public institution has to operate within.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am I? Every town has people who want to privatize the school system.
> "I have no children in school, therefore I shouldn't have to pay to
> support the public schools." Every town has people who want to
> privatize or eliminate the library. "I don't use it, so why should I
> have to support it?" Are we--as both librarians and as citizens--going
> to allow this to happen? At what point does Town A decide to close the
> local roads to all but residents and, of course, tradespeople,
> justified by the fact that Town A has decided to put more money into
> road maintenance than Town B? We have the technology--we could do that
> right now. I have an EZPass in my car windshield that could deduct
> from my account each time I cross from one town to another over a
> local road. Is that the right thing to do?
>
> I think there are two philosophies at work in the world: (1) every man
> for himself and (2) we're all in this together. I'm in camp 2. The
> first road is the road to ruin. This is why our bridges crumble and
> our children fail math and science. Everybody benefits from an
> educated citizenry--even Andrew Carnegie recognized that.
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