The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted a virtual informational session about various topics going on within the state.
Rep. Chris England of Tuscaloosa was the guest speaker. England discussed issues on taxes, school funding, and more.
England went into detail about the SSUT or Simplified Tellers Use Tax and allows businesses selling online or remotely to collect and send an 8% sales tax to the state.
He says the issue with this tax and online sales tax gets split up causing the money for education to go down.
He encourages people to try to shop locally, so schools can receive more funding.
“So, I’ve been trying to encourage people for years now to purchase things locally because the cost of education was always going to increase, but now since of online seller situation has happened the amount of money that we have to spend on local schools is decreasing,” England said.
He said the school systems will continue to grow and population will increase making the money the state has to deal with these issues is decreasing.
“As a community, i think it’s incumbent upon all of us to contact our elected officials whether its county commissioners, city council, school board members and such to all bring us to the table and figure out how we’re going to pay for education here in Tuscaloosa county cause again at some point the needs are going to go well beyond our meets,” England said.
England said at some point this issue is going to turn into a crisis.
For more more information on these issues you can reach out to Rep. England directly or to the NAACP they will get you in contact with him.
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