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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Mew* Staff Writer
"We’re tired of subsidizing the rest of the county with our personal property taxes.”
That was the message broadcast over and over again by Mike Massie and other farmers at the supervisors’ public hearing last week on eliminating personal property levies on farm machinery, livestock and household goods.
At first consideration, it may appear that Massie’s complaint is invalid. Farmers in Rappahannock probably pay the lowest land taxes in the state. But an examination of the personal property tax records show that farmers here are far and away the biggest contributors, paying amounts 10, 20, 50, even 100 times more than house and lot owners.
On pages in the personal property ledger* farrti accounts stand out in sharp contrast to other tax bills (excluding a few merchants capital accounts) that average well below $50.
Hampton stock farm’s bill this year for personal property taxes on livestock and
90.4%