>> How many family farms do you think land above the current exemption of $5M+?
Probably more than we think...
Acquiring those great swathes of farmland for highways all those years ago, was remarkably smart when you consider what it would cost today...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1