well that's gotta stop

more proof that the government really wants your money. today at work, we were discussing some orchardists who wanted to sell their land. they can get the most money out of it by ripping out the trees and selling it as residential lots... so that sounds like a great plan, right? only, according to our assistant manager (and she wasn't 100% sure about this, but she's usually pretty on top of stuff), if you want to do that, you have to pay about 7 years worth of back taxes on your property as if it were residential zoning. which to me seems just plain wrong.