But anytime library supporters mount an effort to build a proper library or increase funding, they’ve run into stone walls and insults, both from libertarians and from tax-conscious town officials. During one town meeting, when Jeremy Olson was told that state law mandates wages for public library workers, he put forth an apparently serious proposal that the library do an end run around the law by paying its staff $1 an hour. Another library antagonist suggested that its free WiFi was opening the town to legal attacks over copyright infringement.
