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"In ability to support schools, we rank seventh in the state,” Bomberger continued, “and yet we rank 127th in our effort. We have one of the lowest average true tax rates in the state at 27 cents per S100 valuation giving us a ranking of 126th out of 134.” Bomberger later said he’d received his statistics from the Virginia Department of Education. More For Property Owners
From these statistics, Bomberger concluded that Rappahannock has “done more for property owners than almost anyone else and less for education than almost anyone else." He criticized the argument that low property taxes benefit the poor. “The poor have the most to gain from quality schools,” he maintained, since education is often the only way a poor person has to improve his position in life.
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