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Originally Posted by Tinordi

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.

Originally Posted by Kavvy

As a person who hasn't used the library in years, and will use the saddledome 3-6 times a year, it boggles my mind how anyone could say that the saddle-dome is on par as a need for public funding with the library.

Throw in the library's increase usage rates, its not even a discussion anymore.

I'm not sure you're responding to the post you quoted.