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Our county’s current FISCAL CRISIS stems indirectly from the above wrong-headed approach but immediately and directly from the adoption of general land use value taxation in June, 1981, and the continuing approval of tax-avoiding agricultural and forestal districts since then.
Basically, we have only real property to tax and, no matter who owns it, it cannot move. It is sheer folly to allow $40 million of this taxable asset to escape taxation EACH YEAR through tax deferrals, with no industrial or commercial tax base to substitute for it. It produced
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