Wal-mart, Borders, Amazon: Who Best Serves the Community?
December 15th, 2009 | by BGuzzardi |
The focus of the Free Market is the Consumer. Lower prices mean a higher standard of living for the average American. More goods and services are accessible to more people. Competition and choice are the consumer’s friend. Higher taxes reduce capital available for investment in technologies that make worker-producers more productive raising real wages. Comare what we will get from the $9 million dollar proposed Ludington Renovation which is part of $24 million township wide renovation. And there is no evidence that one more person will read one more book.
“Wal-Mart triggered the online skirmish Thursday when it began selling its 10 most anticipated hardcovers for $10 apiece when pre-ordered on its Web site. Amazon matched the offer hours later and Wal-Mart then chopped its price to $9. Friday morning Amazon had matched the price.”
Meanwhile the proposed $24,000,000 dollar Ludington Library does not propose to buy a single new book.
I can also remind you that Borders has free WiFi and a coffee bar with excellent Seattle’s coffee in Wynnewood Shopping Center.
There is no evidence that spending any money on proposed renovations any goal of a library, either my goal that more people read more books, or goals asserted by others. This is not an anti-library position. It is fact and it is thinking of The Forgotten Taxpayer who will pay for something he or she will, likely, never use.
For what is the LMBOC forcing The Forgotten Taxpayer to pay? Probably more people go to Wal-mart in a day than all Lower Merion Libraries in a month. It is, in reality, thinking outside the box, a community center, Wal-mart, is it not?
Thinking outside the box is not a LMBOC tradition; spending taxpayer money is.