Fire by NFU Groups
Property Taxes Under
Mel Borden, a National Far
mers Union member from Ohio
has challenged the right of states
and municipalities to tax
property for the purpose of
education. “This case could go all
the way to the United States
Supreme Court before it’s
settled,” Borden told a Lan
chester NFU meeting on Wed
nesday night in Quarryville.
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Three years ago, Borden told
the gathering, the OHIO NFU
studied the property tax situation
and decided it was wrong. It was
especially wrong for farmers,
because property taxes in many
areas were eating up as much as
25 percent of a farmers income.
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property taxes rolled back, not
just for the farmer but for
everybody. They also sent two
NFU members to the state
legislature to lobby full-time for
the passage of legislation to get
property taxes lowered.
Things dragged on, Borden
said, and nothing much appeared
to be happening in the state
government. “So one day, we had
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 14,1972
Mel Borden, an Ohio NFU
official, was the featured
speaker at the Wednesday
night meeting of the Lan
chester NFU chapter held in
Quarryviile.
150 farmers visit the speaker of
the house. This made an im
pression on the speaker, because
his office only holds 25 people.
Three days later, the speaker
went on record as saying that he
supported our movement.”
“Finally,” Borden said, “the
legislature passed a 10 percent
property tax rollback. They also
passed a graduated income tax,
which we felt was a better way of
raising money for schools.”
Borden pointed out that several
courts have ruled that the
collection of use of property taxes
for educational purposes is un
constitutional, because it means
that poorer school districts have
to settle for a lower expenditure
per pupil. The courts feel that
inferior educational systems may
result from these tax inequities.
After Borden had finished his
speech, Guy Oakraan, chairman
of the Pennsylvania NFU
organization committee,
described legislation which is
now before the Pennsyvania
legislators. The bill Oakman
described would make previous
for taxing land according to use
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value.
Agricultural land under this
bill would be taxed at a rate lower
than commercial or residential.
In the event the land was con
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taxes at the higher rate would
have to be paid for the three-year
period preceding the sale.
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