Today in Bad Ideas: Replace Libraries With Amazon

by Katie HerzogAll this could be an Amazon Bookstore one day.Kelly O
This month's Bad Take Award goes to Panos Mourdoukoutas, a contributor to Forbes, who published an op-ed entitled, "Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money" over the weekend.The headline says it all. Mourdoukoutas, an economist at Long Island University, argues that libraries are a waste of money and that the best way to save a few bucks for the bedraggled taxpayer is to close down all our local libraries