• TheRealKuni
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    75 months ago

    Again, where I live, yes. If we, as voters, decided not to approve the library millage, we would no longer pay that specific tax which funds the library.

    The library would coast for a bit, but would eventually shut down unless we voted to start paying that tax again.

    I know this is true because it literally happened a few towns over where a bunch of dipshits voted to stop funding their library over LGBTQ books. Fortunately the library was kept afloat by donations until a millage was eventually approved to keep it funded.

    • Flying Squid
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      35 months ago

      a rate of 0.4119 mills

      I would suggest that the tax cut in that case is so negligible as to be essentially nonexistent from a taxpayer’s perspective.

      • TheRealKuni
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        85 months ago

        Well, sure, but that’s not the point. I’m just saying the tax money that I pay to fund the library is something I specifically pay to fund the library. If we didn’t have the library, my taxes would be lower by the amount of my taxes that goes towards the library.

        (Obviously, libraries are a fantastic use of tax money and I would never vote not to pay the meager amount I do to fund them.)