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The state of Virginia gets its primary revenues from income tax. Virginia, as a state, has very little interest in taking your property. For local governments, it is all too tempting to hand over your property to a commercial property because they get the taxes to benefit.


Horace Cooper

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[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
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HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
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