> Most libraries require you to be a resident of the community where the library is. If you aren't one, you don't get a card, so you can't check out the books. Children are allowed to check out the books because they are considered to be paid for by their taxpaying parents.
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> > Thu 14 Sep A.D. 2000

Now there's another problem. I live in Loudon County but only a couple of miles from Knox County. I cannot use the libraries on the other side of the county like because I don't have a Knox County address and presumably don't pay taxes there. Bull-oney! Most of the areas where we shop are in Knox County where the sales tax is about 8%, including the so-called local option sales tax. As a result we pay more taxes than some people who live there. If I lived in a trailer in Knox County and shopped at the big mall in Anderson County, I could check out all the books I wanted and still pay almost no Knox County taxes at all. If they are going to call them "public" libraries, they should be open to the public. I wonder how much state and federal money goes into Knox County libraries?
Howard