As for who gets what from taxes, realize the farmer pays a fair bit of taxes that go to help the city dweller. Property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and the rest of the slew of taxes one pays also hits the farmer.
Dude, that's hilarious. Farmers are generally wealthy, and generally pay little to no tax. Go right on thinking that. You have no idea apparently the kind of tax shelter that farming is.
The average household worth 300k and making 100k in this community pays more income and property taxes than the average farmer worth ten million bucks and making seven figures. The farmer might pay more in sales taxes but it would be close. The words "agricultural exemption" are the most used words in the South Dakota Code.
