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HowTo San Fanning Col. Nets Parson asked the candidates if they' had any opinions on what could be done to save farmers from having to subdivide their land. Murphy responded that freedom of choice interred into the issue. “Farmers ought to have the right to sell their land.” “But what can we do to make them want to keep it?” asked Parson. “1 don’t think you can bribe a man to farm for very long,” countered Murphy.
Parson argued that Murphy was missing the point. “In the Midwest, a farmer gets three cents for a loaf of bread. The price of bread keeps going up but what the farmer gets keeps going down. What can be done to help the fanner in Rappahannock?,’’ Parson asked. “Is an agricultural district going, to help? What else can be don? Can the farmer be allowed to sell his products directly to his community?”
“This is a problem to be dealt with locally,” answered Davies. As an example, he said he didn’t think the General Assembly had any business requiring a locality to adopt land use taxation.
Land use has been adopted in Culpeper County, Davies continued. But Culpeper had alternatives on where the tax burden should be shifted—to industry or subdivisions, he noted. That’s not true in rural counties, he .said. Davies added that he favored a state revision of inheritance taxes similar to what was adopted recently at the national level. “The state ought to look at how h can protect the family farm,” he maintained.
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