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other locations which supply them with tax-financed services.
The money they leave behind circulates. The grocery store owner, the gas station manager, the waiter and the crafter pay the plumber, the carpenter and the painter from their profits. They pay, in turn, the farm worker who plows their fields and picks their apples, the baby sitter who cares for their children, the veterinarian who treats their pet. The money just keeps going round and round and round. And out of every dollar that passes through a cash register, two cents in sales tax revenue comes back to the county to pay for education and other local services, relieving a little of the pressure to raise that necessary revenue through local taxes.
Industrial development is not now the answer to providing employment for Rappahannock people and broadening the county’s tax base. We lack what industry looks for when it picks a home. We don’t have public water or sewer. We don’t have a railroad or major transportation route. With just 6,000 people, we don’t really have the labor force — not the labor force that industry wants. We don’t have housing for an influx of newcomers if industry brings its own work force. Our schools have no where near the diversity in educational programs found in other counties. We’re not out there in the market place with an industrial development commission fighting tooth and nail to attract new businesses, either.
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