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With state and local taxes on the rise in all parts of the country, to what extent are Rappahannock County residents affected?
Are they paying more or less than people in other communities for local government services?
According to the latest figures, they and everyone else are having to dig much deeper than before to meet the increased cost of such services.
For Americans as a whole, the* cost of state and local government opS erations averaged $427 per capita in the past fiscal year, an increase of $47 over the prior year.
For residents of Rappahannock County, the tax load was approximately $190 per capita.
Elsewhere in the State of Virginia, it was $340, or $26 more than the year be
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