âI rarely give one-star reviews, but ever since the hosts remodeled the kitchen last year, none of my cereal bowls are where they used to be. â â
Meanwhile on Twitter, the author of the original article doubled down and huffily pointed out public libraries are not free, because theyâre paid for by taxes.
I donât think he was expecting as many âwell duhâ responses as he received.
Nice!
Not to mention, of course, one does still have to pay taxes the Amazon way â sales tax, then costs for extra storage furniture/media to store all those books, and so on, and so forth.
I think the economist is just in shock that some of the hoi polloi have figured out taxes arenât always a bad thing.
Thereâs also the fact that heâs claimed he pays almost $500 in taxes for libraries alone per year. Which says interesting things about what his income level probably is.
Not really grin inducing, but thereâs a little bit of sun from behind the cloudâŚ
New Forbes headline: âLibertarian Economist Clouted about the Head with Arithmetic; Scuttles Awayâ.
I would prefer it if Forbes had to let articles like that lie there steaming in full view, rather than conveniently memory-holing them. This should be the first result for a Google search for Mourdoukoutas for the next thousand years.
At my library, I can learn a foreign language through Rosetta Stone, take lectures in design and computer programming, 8 hours of music streaming and 5 free song downloads a week, subscribe to online magazines and checkout digital books directly to my reader, all through my taxes. Iâm happy.
So, Georgia folks, true?
Not a Georgia folk myself, but been there enough times to know that R.L. Ripples speaks the truth.
Indeed. August is always the worst month weather wise. It gets hotter and more humid the further south you go. I know itâs more humid here in the ATL then it was where I grew up (up in near the foothills on the NW side of the state).
But we get milder winters, too⌠well, usually. Weâve had some pretty snowy/icy weather the past few years - for GA anyway.
Exactly! And hey, itâs not OUR fault we only have 4 snow plows for the entire state! Weâre not used to snow!
Thatâs one jaunty angle.
I have reached this point.
