Libraries are one of the most important educational assets a community can have. Personally, much of my education came from borrowing books from the public library. Benjamin Franklin understood this, and so did Thomas Jefferson. But apparently, MAGAt Republicans do not.
All across the Red states MAGAts are trying to gut the public and school libraries removing anything their weak ideologically constrained minds find objectionable. Rosa Parks was a Black woman, no, no, I don't want my kids to be taught that. The IQ of Americans is going down for the first time in a century, and a lower percentage of Americans are considered educated and capable of passing an 8th grade exam given out to children in 1895 in a Kansas one-room schoolhouse than in the MAGAt's grandparents' generation. MAGAt world is made up of non-college educated White people making $50,000 dollars or less. Easily manipulated with disinformation, particularly when their racial and gender fears are stimulated.
Missouri lawmakers on Thursday moved to strip state funding from public libraries in retaliation for a lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans certain materials in school libraries. Credit: Shane Keyser / Kansas City Star / TNS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers late Thursday evening moved to strip state funding from public libraries in retaliation for a lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans certain materials in school libraries.
The proposal, approved close to midnight by the House Budget Committee, would cut the entire $4.5 million in state aid that libraries were slated to get next year. The proposed library cut, along with other changes to the state’s roughly $50 billion budget, will now head to the full Missouri House.
“They are seeking to overturn that law that was unanimously supported by the House,” said state Rep. Cody Smith, a Carthage Republican and chair of the committee who proposed the cut. “I don’t think we should subsidize that.”
