Libraries are a public good, hockey teams are not.
One is not viable as a private business, the other one is.
One needs substantial public funding, the other does not.
The fact that we're even having this conversation is just depressing. I would hope we'd have some more civic virtue to invest in literacy, culture, and learning with our scarce public dollars than to subsidize a near half a billion dollar profitable business so that we can dry our hands with greater ease.
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