Don't panic. It is not yet another insidious way for urban bureaucrats to
fleece we noble country folk. But for sure this is a definition I had never
considered.
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/us/26revenue.html?_r=1&hp
Beatrice was a starting point for the Homestead Act of 1862, the federal law
that handed land to pioneering farmers. Back then, the goal was to settle the
West. The goal of Beatrice’s “Homestead Act of 2010,” is, in part, to
replenish city coffers.
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