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or more trom land use taxation than the farmer,” he maintained.
John Marocchi suggested that the supervisors obtain recent figures from surrounding counties on the effect of land use, including the amount of land in the programs and examples of actual taxes before and after adoption.
“The question of land use or not is a question of the survival of Rappahannock County,” maintained Bill
Fletcher. Farmers don’t want to shift the tax burden to anyone else, he said. They just want the equalization they had prior to the reassessment.
“The power to tax is the power to destroy," Fletcher continued, maintaining that subdivision of farms enhances growth, attracts
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