@darius @blaine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Public_Library

"A $219 million property tax levy was approved by Seattle voters in August 2019 to fund library services"

"in November 2012 Seattle voters passed a 7-year levy to restore services"

"In 1998, Seattle voters, with an unprecedented 69 percent approval rate, approved the largest library bond issue then ever submitted in the United States. The $196 million "Libraries for All" bond measure"

Taxes, levies, bond issues: these are the instruments of govt.