Dangling Modifier?

I really, really wish these people had had my English teacher!

Today's Morning Star featured a story by Rolke:
"Coldstream reduces agricultural tax burden"

Huh?

At first blush, that quickly-read heading denotes that Coldstream municipality had too much work squirreling away all the property tax money from the agricultural sector in this area.

Which, I suppose, is a little correct.
Only a little.

The heading should've read:  "Coldstream reduces property tax burden for agriculture"


It's a win-win for all farms in Coldstream, who had been paying about twice what other areas' property taxes were for the Farm Class 9 assessment (all things being equal, i.e. mill rates set independently by each community).  Classes are set as a multiplier of the Class 1, residential rate.

B.C. Assessment's details regarding how farm lands are assessed is here.
Buildings on that farm land are assessed differently (actual value).

Coldstream's Class 9 farm assessments were a tax multiplier (to residential) of 4.5 to 1.
They will now be 2.4 to 1.

It all depends on what mill rates (cost per thousand dollars of the assessed value) will be determined by Coldstream.

Hey, wait a minute.
When we farmed our 15 acre property, the assessed land value was puny, miniscule, paltry, measly, trivial compared to what the land was actually worth (farming or no farming); proof is what the land is now assessed at since we converted to a par-3 golf course.

So the puny, miniscule, paltry, measly farmland properties will now have their multipliers reduced by almost half?

Ahem.

"Why don't communities simply offer NO TAX on farm lands?" questions Kia.

 
Double-dipping aside.

Oh, and then there are farm water rates...
nearly free as well.

Triple-dipping then.
No dangling modifier there.