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“For years, farmers in Rappahannock County have paid more than their fair share”, said Mike Basset. ‘‘Farmers are in the minority now. They are more real estate agents here than farmers."
If the county wants to keep its farmers, he said, it must do something to help them. Farmers shouldn't have to subsidize the rest of the county, he added. “They’re not the ones making all the money."
Encourages Cheating
Steve Bullock supported elimination of the personal property taxes on farm machinery and livestock as a means of encouraging agriculture, the base of tlje county's economy. He also .advocated dropping the levy pn _ .household.. goods, maintaining that the county's current tax system “en
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