This cut is too ridiculous to be serious. It reeks of social engineering.
Any cut, even a 5% cut, happening after what is already a 20% reduction in library budgets due to the shortage in tax revenue, would have been fought.

So how do you cut a budget where any reduction would be fought? You propose something obscene. 50%! Libraries all over Ohio would be closed, and the rest crushed. Generate the outrage. Then... you make a compromise. "We see how important libraries are to the people... we'll only cut... 10%!"

You get the cuts you'd *already* planned, but now people who were previously furious (who still lost, mind you...) feel that their outrage accomplished something. "We made a difference!" No... you were played like puppets and were put back in the box satisfied.

No different than gas prices. After getting jacked around at prices nearing $5 a gallon, how often do you hear someone upon seeing a pump at $2.80 say "hey, that's not a bad price!" (Hit them, btw.) Show them the worst, and the bar for what is considered acceptable moves with it.