Sales tax and timing wrong for Baldwin - al.com

Sales tax and timing wrong for Baldwin - al.com: "BALDWIN COUNTY public school system leaders understandably want to avoid more painful budget cuts, but asking for a penny sales tax increase is the wrong way to solve the problem.

The new tax would make Baldwin schools even more vulnerable to the economic swings that have affected public education statewide. And it would, like all other sales taxes, be regressive: Lower-income people would pay a larger proportion of their incomes than others. A sales tax levied by the Baldwin County Commission would not require a vote of the people, either."