Anyone who wants to save the Salinas libraries, should be donating their time and money to them.

Too busy with your own life to do so? Already taxed to death with nothing left to give?

So am I. So are a lot of people. So leave tax money out of this. The average American is already being taxed to death by 100,000 different tax-funded charities.

Charities like libraries in communities where most of us taxpayers don't even live.

We can't take it any more. I'm having a hard enough time just paying the IRS to support all your other charities that you won't donate your own time and money to.

Times are tough. There's a recession on, in case you hadn't heard.