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Re: Farmers and Conservation

Most "rural" property taxes go to the public school system.  Do you have a
solution to educating rural kids? Our real estate taxes on our ag land is
miniscule compared to the one acre separated out for our home.
Ed and Gale

-----Original Message-----
From: John Foust <jfoust@threedee.com>
To: prairie@mallorn.com <prairie@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Farmers and Conservation


>At 01:09 PM 8/31/00 -0500, Ed and Gale wrote:
>>I find it a little ironic that farmers will sell readily to any suburban
>>developer and will scream bloody murder about the demise of family farms
>>when a refuge or park is established. If farmers really wanted to save
>>farmland, they shouldn't have been so greedy when the subdivision
developers
>>and mall developers were handing out the big checks.
>
>That's a bit of a generalization.  It's not necessarily the same
>farmer engaging in both halves of that hypocrisy.
>
>If you really want to eliminate reasons why farmers sell large
>tracts to developers, work towards eliminating your state's property tax.
>
>- John
>
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