Re: Farmers and Conservation

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• To: prairie@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: Farmers and Conservation
• From: John Foust jfoust@threedee.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:27:58 -0500

At 08:43 PM 9/21/00 -0500, Ed and Gale wrote:
>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.

If someone owns land outright and taxes are $XX a year, then the
property tax is a disincentive that works against preservation.  
The owner looks for ways for the land to make more than $XX a year,
whether it means renting it for crops or harvesting the trees
or selling fractions for home development.

- John

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