Horses' role in agriculture

Reader comment on: Steven Rattner's Horse Farm

Submitted by Fred Van Bennekom (United States), Aug 31, 2010 17:25

Massachusettes' (Coakley revised spelling) APR is used to keep family farms. Farm land is taxed based on potential use, which is as house lots. Tax-wise, it's a killer. Of course, if we had use taxes instead of wealth taxes to fund local government, the APR wouldn't be needed. But I digress...

But horse farms are agricultural? Unless he's raising plow horses, there's only one other connection to agriculture... Since Rattner's most recent jobs were in government, it is a natural transition.

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