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for him alone. The formula, (using the figures for sales, income, true market value, population, etc.) “says you take .333 of X and add it to .66 of Y to get Z Master son laughed. Unless you had some time, and some knowledge of algebra, you can’t figure it out, he said.
But Patterson and Adkins had done the figuring and they’d concluded the state’s own formula doesn’t work in practice the way it purports to in theory, at least not for Rappahannock.
Masterson said the discrimination wasn’t intentional. “After all, what formula could take into consideration that we would have an inflation and a recession at the same time?’’ he asked.
MASTERSON, George Davis, Herbert Barksdale and Delegate French Slaughter have taken their findings of “discrimination” in the state formula to the State Board of Education and the State Commissioner of Revenue in Richmond. “We were well received,” Masterson told the Supervisors, “but we walked out as short as we walked in.”
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