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hannock’s merchants, innkeepers and other “dealers” achieved $15.5 million in taxable sales, so that pre^ sumably only $155,000 was sent back* to our county, about $24 per resi-« dent. Note that this is $307,000 less! and barely one-third of what woul(£ have come if Rappahannock were* “average” in this respect. Why, thatj is enough to cover the debt servica on a middle school, to pick an exam-! pie that comes to mind. J
What to do? We could patroniz^ our local merchants as much as pos-* sible, and encourage our non-resi-. dent friends to come to the county tcS buy furniture and apples, and havtf breakfast at bed and breakfasts. But; we are doing that already. •
How about asking our represen! tatives in Richmond, who all prom-J ised to help constituents in th^ recent campaign, to get the formula changed so state school aid per pupif is a function of each county’s sales tax revenue rather than its per capita income? Then the amount of state financial help for local schools would have some relationship with the ability of each county to fund the remaining costs. I
If, however, the Virginia govern*
ment can’t change the formulaj maybe it should draw the logical con* elusion from that formula and sendH part of what it collects through personal income tax back to the county of the taxpayer.
THEODORE A. CHAPMAtf
Washington, Va.i
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