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ty,” he said. “If these businesses close and we lose income in sales as well as the sales tax, everybody in Rappahannock County will have to pick up the tab.”
Luke added that the state pro-rates sales tax money back to a county based on the amount of sales tax income generated in the county.
“These businesses are the main and only source of support for most families who operate them, he said. “They don’t want to move somewhere else and retrain.”
Mrs. Helen Kilby interrupted Luke. ‘ ‘I don’t think this statement is representative of Sperryville. You keep talking about the businessmen you’ve seen. What about the homeowners, the homesteads in the town? If you widen the road inside Sperryville you’ll take them.”
Mrs. Kilby continued: “Some people have worked all their lives to have a home and bring up their kids. Yop can’t just take that away.”
Luke said that once he finished reading the statement, he would welcome dissenting comments from anyone the room.
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