11-12-2024, 04:26 PM
(11-12-2024, 03:01 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: Many people reject funding free services that they don't think they will ever use or benefit from. To a significant number of those people, subsidizing those services is more palatable.
In that context it's easy to see some sort of fee (even if just nominal) as a form of protection against future defunding.
Again, this doesn't happen for most of the services which are free. Canada doesn't have ANY anti-library opposition at this point (I know the US does, but they're just generally against knowing anything), and it's free, and not used by most people.
Again, I don't think opposition is about funding.