Comments on: Billionaire vs. New York City’s kids and libraries: E-book collection to suffer?

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:36:43 +0000

Here it is the 14th and I only found out about this because it was an incoming link to my blog! This is how far underwater I am in things!

I wonder if this was the reason I saw some muckety-mucks visiting my local branch, which is (now, was?) due for a major overhaul and expansion? (In typical bureaucratic fashion, they screwed up the deal for the adjacent land, buying it at the peak of the Greed Boom! They could have had it earlier for far less.)

Fred: At one time they *did* tax my wages for NY when I lived in NJ. That got shot down after a few years. I’m surprised to hear they want to bring it back. I did do the “amazon tax” bill in a post:
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/my-state-is-run-by-corrupt-thieves/

I’ll do the NYPL soon.

By: Fred Kiesche

Fred Kiesche — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:32:21 +0000

Oh yes, they also proposed taxing your wages even if you worked the entire year in NJ because the company you work for was headquarted in NYC. Shot down. I bet the etailers tax will be shot down as well.

By: Fred Kiesche

Fred Kiesche — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:31:07 +0000

Well, the politicians in NYC and many other places go through this dance every now and again. We’re going to slash libraries/after school programs/state parks (which is purposed right now in NJ) unless you give us (fill in the blank).

S.O.S.

By: Bob Martinengo

Bob Martinengo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:13:29 +0000

Speaking of libraries, there are some interesting updates from the group that protested DRM in Boston libraries: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/1128