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THERE IS STILL a tendency on the part of city folks— and on the part of city bureaucrats—to regard anything which helps farming as “special interest” legislation, and therefore something to be avoided. They don’t mind deducting the interest on their suburban ranch house mortgages when it comes time to pay their taxes, but they resent bitterly any seeming advantage that may have been arranged for the farmer.
Well, they can resent it if they want to, but if farming doesn’t survive they’ll suffer along with the displaced farmers. Estate taxes, land speculation pressures, spreading development, more and more conversions to non-farm use of prime agricultural land—these are things which hold a potential for disaster.
America is one of the world’s leading agricultural nations—and this beautiful Piedmont we live in is one of the richest producing areas in the nation. If that role is diminished by greedy land use patterns and unwise, punitive taxation practices, then we will come to a sad day, indeed, that cannot be undone.□
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