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sonally guarantee it. Just ask me.

Then, there is your statement that county residents are more willing to spend on private goods and services than on essential county services. This construction is not appropriate in Rappahannock County where a significant proportion of the residents are experiencing decreasing farm and other revenues. Many of our residents are not out increasing their purchases of private goods, but conversely, are experiencing increased costs of farming, living and doing business, and ever less money for everything. Further taxing of the farmers on their machinery and livestock would make their situation even more desperate, if not prohibitive, only to change completely Rappahannock’s landscape, character and unique value. The very reason, I suspect, we are all here.

Personal property taxes were notoriously inaccurate and unfair. Merchants capital taxed maybe several

95.5%