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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
FARMERS turned out in force for the Rappahannock Supervisors’ budget hearing Thursday, June 24, at the Courthouse in Washington. Tliey came to protest the advertised budget and its accompanying $4.40 tax rate, which would be a 50-cent increase over last year.
“You gentlemen should learn to shear sheep rather than skim 'em, they last longer that way,” James Rollison told the Supervisors. “This year we’ve got a 40 percent hay crop and a ten percent apple crop. It costs me 40 cents a pound to raise a cow that only brings 38 cents a pound. Everywhere you look, the farmer’s losing. Who gives it to the farmer so he can stay in farming?”
Newbill Miller, a former Siqrervisor, presented figures that showed a 66 percent increase in taxes at the local level since
93.7%