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which is what is involved here and the public, local
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government needs to have a stable, uneroded and tax basis
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on which to proceed, and I think the public needs to be
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protected not only with respect to the question of whether
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the classifications are uniform, but with respect to whether
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the results are equitable, so far as the burden of tax in
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relation to --
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THE CHAIRMAN: How do you feel about the provisic
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in the Maryland Constitution which provides that land being
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devoted to agricultural use should be assessed for that
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purpose and not whatever its value might be?
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MR. BOND: I've got an acre and a half and I've
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got a garden in half of my acre.
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MRS. HOFFMAN: Mr. Bond, I don't know — you've
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got your acre and a half in Baltimore City. I know how
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you feel about it. I feel that this is inequitable. I
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feel that if it's local public policy, and it should be
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local public policy to provide some kind of benefits to
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people actually holding open space land for open space
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purposes or preseving agricultural land for agricultural
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purposes, I think this is one of the real dilemmas of our
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