Well then, you hang-on tight to your 30 cents there bucko, my 12 y.o. nephew said he'll be happy to kick-in your share out of his allowance, if it'll teach you civic responsibility.
And yeah, I'd happily give a c-note to build a library that benefits my kids & the other kids in the neighborhood - no idea what kind of community you live in, but I live in a small community with a very direct & responsive government, and we make those decisions on an annual basis, and we value having a clean, safe, fiscally sound community with good schools & libraries - and we are willing to pay for it. Why? Because nothing in life is free, and if you want the best for yourself & your family, you've got to be able to fork-over a few Georgies.
I do think it's pretty telling that the example of withholding funds you picked is a library - there's a lot of other examples that would put your argument in a better light than one involving kids, knowledge, and education - but hey, you're the one that picked it!
But then you've trained under 'a very accomplished professor', which sounds kind of interesting seeing as your example doesn't seem very supportive of academics or knowledge.