[Cool Guy]

The fake TJ is apparently ignorant of the fact that the real Thomas Jefferson sold his collection of books to the government as the nucleus of what became the Library of Congress, our nation's greatest public library

You are still missing TJ's point. The Government did not take away the books from him. He gave it away. There is a big difference.

[Roscoe]

He gave it away.

Wrong. He sold the books for money from the public treasury and the books were used to start a public library.

[Boot Hill]

No, Roscoe is not missing the point and neither am I.

Thomas Jefferson willingly participated in a government scheme to use tax dollars to create, build and support libraries. Thomas Jefferson gave his books to the government in exchange for tax money that was "immorally taken at gunpoint to pay for someone else's reading material".

--Boot Hill