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to put a gun to the head of cash-poor farmers who want to cut up their land into 25acre lots. If they’re cashpoor now they’ll be rich after the sale.
But that will mean more people and higher taxes.
The supervisors have proposed a partial answer — a modest increase in today’s taxes to help fund the Farmland Preservation Program, in order to forestall higher taxes later.
A 1.5-cent tax increase in Albemarle County headed off 15 cents in future taxes.
Pay a little now or a lot later.
.Hal Hunter
Amissville
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