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Originally Posted by Envitro
My point was not whether public libraries should exist or not, whether I ever use one again in my life or not, but should they be grandiose and cost hundreds of millions of dollars?
The debate over "public good" is multi-faceted.
Our tax dollars have been used for all sorts of public works projects that I'll never ever see any benefit from, yet when we're talking about building a new publicly-owned event center facility that will be used for many things other than just hockey games, and is 50% funded by a private enterprise then I guess we're not having the same conversation then.
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The self-declared libertarians love spending money on private sport venues...
I'm starting to think libertarianism is just the ideology of the selfish