[39] in libertarians
Re: News of the Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (solman@MIT.EDU)
Sun Jul 3 18:18:28 1994
From: solman@MIT.EDU
To: mjacknis@MIT.EDU
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 03 Jul 94 17:28:23 -0400.
<9407032128.AA08290@yaz-pistachio.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 94 18:14:19 EDT
> Boston Globe -- The town of Lakeville is closing its library and has
> severely cut its police dept., fire dept., etc. The actual source of
> the problem is buried in the Globe article near the end -- the State's
> Educational Reform Act, which mandates minimum spending levels for
> publik schools.
I read an article about the same town in yesterday's globe in which it
indicated that the school spending limits were not the problem. Instead,
the town ran a deficit during the previous fiscal year and the residents,
in a prop. 2.5 over-ride refused to pay the money necessary to keep open
non-essential services like libraries and senior citizen's centers.
Nothing anti-libertarian went on. The townsfolk simply found out that if
government sponsored services go away if government money goes away.
Quite a concept, don't you think?
JWS
