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to help preserve family farms and keep land in the family too.

Strange but true

Land in land use hurts school funding. And so do wealthy retirees.

The biggest local taxpayer expense is the public school system. The two biggest sources of money for Rappahannock’s public schools are county money raised from property taxes and state money . The state money is doled out according to the Composite Index, a measure of how much help from the state a county needs. The real value of land and the average income of residents make up most of the Composite Index. It does not take into account

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