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l-jiniiivu luiuiiiui Liai growth, as called for by the comprehensive plan, is what I believe we should be working toward If we can broaden the tax base, meals and lodging taxes and others, that's the onlyway we’re going to be able to work things out, so that smallparcel landowners don’t get taxed out of their homes and we can keep our good schools "

Biniek suggested looking at efforts underway to sell and distribute local agricultural produce and other pn ducts via retail and Internet-based cooperatives and buyers’ clubs, citing efforts by ClifT Miller, Joyce Hannon and Jerome Niessen already begun in Rappahannock. 'Though any expansion of businesses in the county increases the tax base, Biniek’s suggestion at the forum that the county’s revenues from such operations might come in the form of sales tax shares has inspired a lively debate since on Rappnet, the county’s email listserve.)

“The best-case scenario is that we can get our Composite Index down,” Pamsh said, “and

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