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lower tax rate is Page, over the mountain. One thousand dollars here is $930.56 there.
Why are our taxes low?
Fewer people. The fewer the people, the fewer the demands for tax-paid services.
How can we keep taxes low?
Well, we can’t pull up the drawbridge and keep people from moving here. But we can keep the current zoning — that would mean re-electing supervisors who favor it — and we can discourage landowners from selling lots to residential developers.
It’s a free county, of course, and property rights are sacred, especially in Virginia. So no one is going
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