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Virignia “isn’t the combelt with its giant agri-business enterprises,” continued. “But our production, when it's piled up. means a great deal,” he maintained. Ag districts are not a way for the farmer to get out of paying his fair share of taxes, according to the Isle of Wight supervisors. Instead, ‘‘the farmer’s trying to protect his own industry, his own way of life. Remember, when the food industry suffers, so do all of-us,” he warned.
Turner maintained that use value taxation, “in its own little way,” improves the country’s overall economic situation by helping producers of agricultural products to stay in business. “Agricultural exports are the only thing that keep our trade balance close to even,” he maintained.
Use value taxation also helps the local taxpayer by helping the farmer to keep his property “not for sale,” Turner said. “When the farmer’s land is not for sale, no developer can develop it,” he concluded.
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