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" is the place to be!/Faaaa-arm living is the life for me!" Gotta love all of these faux rustics that have blown out into the county since city taxes gave them cases of "th'vapors", and now they're all yeomen, woodsmen, and minutemen. There are probably no more than two dozen McLean County families who've owned their farms since before 1945, and we all know each other, and you - Eddie Albert, or Eddie Eagle - aren't from one of them. "

" A landowner that has to pay $50.00 an acre in taxes for woodlands is being overcharged. "

" Obviously the tax rate on woodlands should be a matter between only the State and real landowners. It's quite clear that those who see a lower tax rate as a 'deal with the devil' know nothing about either issue. So is a homeowner who takes advantage of Illinois' automatic $5,000 homestead exemption also playing into the hands of the militia and other 'anti-gubmit" groups? ('Ooohh... take more of my money as property taxes ... just don't let those evil gunowners use my basement for their meetings!!') How utterly shallow your thought processes must be (and that's giving you the benefit of the doubt on their existence). "

" Why do'nt you just comment on things you know about. Instead of shooting off your mouth about things you have no knowledge about. And belittleing people that live in rural area. Oh that is right in that case you could not write about anything!! "

" is not worried about "gub'mint" access, but about the anti-"gub'mint" caperings of the Western Illinois Unregulated Militia frightening his cows, and shooting one another in the feet on his liability dime. Field Marshal Jed and Colonel Ned and their NRA/ISRA "minutemen" can practice for Armageddon someplace else. "

" Fachna attempted to say is "if the devil knocks at your door and you let him in you are to blame". I have timber and I will pay full taxes to keep the government at a long arms length from it. "

" Obviously Facha doesn't even OWN any timber. Otherwise he'd know that property taxes hold no relation to government access to the lands (think 4th Amendment), and even less to do with private access. I, on the other hand, DO own timber, which I actively work to preserve, and still have to pay the same property taxes as those who derive income from their tilled acreage. It's a question of fairness towards those who are good stewards of their lands, in an effort to encourage those efforts. Please, Facha, do not belittle the work of better citizens. "

" How about penalizing developers for stripping all the black dirt off subdivided land, leaving the homeowner with grass slapped on clay worthy of being used for pottery? Homeowners who buy new houses should be howling about this but we're all just sheep to be fleeced by these guys. "

" If relief is conditioned upon opening my woodlands to Field Marshal Jed and Colonel Ned for manuevers, I'd just as soon pay the tax. And rely upon it, that will be one of the proposals. "