Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a bill that would cut property taxes for the state’s farmers and ranchers by lowering ag land values to 50 percent to pay for school bonds.

Curt Friesen, a Republican from Henderson, says the bill levels the playing field. “This is a rural issue where they have that vote and you’re totally outnumbered by the urban population and yet the dollars come from the minority of people who own land in that district who may not even have an opportunity to vote,” he told his colleagues on the floor of the Unicameral Wednesday morning.                                                                 

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