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unhappycamper

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Sun Jul 20, 2014, 10:07 AM Jul 2014

Sales tax bill calls for choice between schools and city bus service [View all]

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/sales-tax-bill-calls-for-choice-between-schools-and-city/article_ef6a0a46-6393-57ff-b6d5-82fef329db0d.html



Sales tax bill calls for choice between schools and city bus service
Posted: Friday, July 18, 2014 9:23 pm | Updated: 9:40 am, Sat Jul 19, 2014.
By Paul Woolverton Staff writer

A bill the state Senate is considering would force counties to choose between funding public schools or public city buses.

The bill would allow counties, with voter permission, to boost the local portion of the sales tax by up to a half-cent, so long as the total local portion of sales taxes would be no more than 2.5 percent of a product's price. The state levies another 4.75 percent sales tax.

Counties could give their new revenue to their local public school systems and community colleges. Or, they could instead spend it on local public transportation systems. But they couldn't do both.

The bill emerged as Senate and House leaders continued a weeks-long argument over whether to lay off several thousand teaching assistants across the state and using their salaries to give pay raises to teachers. This local sales tax increase could be used to pay teachers and teaching assistants.
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