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> those 100 farms should not be paying an equal amount of money to the town finances as the 1000 households.

If those 100 farms take up the same land area as 1000 households, then yes they absolutely should. Hell, they'll even have an easier time doing so, since they're (ostensibly) using that land productively (and if not, they absolutely should be) and thus be more able to internalize that opportunity cost they've imposed on others.

And if they can't produce enough to internalize that opportunity cost, then all the more reason for someone else to be given the opportunity to do so.