Liberalism depends on cost controls
There is such thing as bad spending.

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Things are moving kind of slowly at City Council today and I have a lot of unanswered questions about some of the items I'm interested in covering, so I'd like to take a walk down memory lane to a small-ball item from nine years ago that I believe illustrate the importance of saying no in progressive government.
Here was a lede for a story I wrote for the Austin Monitor on Aug. 5, 2016:
Even in the Live Music Capital of the World, there are undoubtedly plenty of people who haven’t bought a physical music album in years. All Austinites, however, continue to buy compact discs through their taxes.
The library was seeking Council's approval to purchase $450,000 of CDs. In my role as a reporter for the Monitor, I wasn't allowed to take sides, but I privately agreed with wackjob Council Member Don Zimmerman: this was not the best use of public dollars.