RESOLUTION 1995 - #1
RESOLUTION 2015 - # 25
FAIR AND PROGRESSIVE TAXATION
WHEREAS:
Corporations and the wealthy have seen their share of our national wealth and income skyrocket since the “Great Recession” while the middle class and working poor have seen wage stagnation; and
WHEREAS:
The Federal tax structure has the wages of working people taxed at a much higher level than the wealthy’s income from investments; and
WHEREAS:
Washington State has the U.S.’s most regressive state tax system, taxing the poorest residents at 16.8 percent while taxing the top 1 percent at only 2.4 percent; and
WHEREAS:
The revenues that fund essential public services such as education, health, and protective services, have declined not just due to the lingering effects of the economic recession, but as a result of deliberate decisions to give tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations; and
WHEREAS:
America’s income inequality has reached historic levels. In 2012, the top 10 percent of America’s earners earned more than 50 percent of our nation’s total income and the top one percent earned 22.5 percent, which is their highest share since 1928; and
WHEREAS:
Both the Federal and State’s deliberate tax policy decisions have help to create a growing crisis of income inequality and inadequate investment in public services and infrastructure; and
WHEREAS:
Anti-union politicians have used the decline in government revenues to step up their attacks on unions and public services, and to propose reductions or elimination of key services; and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
Our Federal and State tax policies should focus on the prosperity and well-being of America’s workers by creating and maintaining a fair tax structure that will provide the necessary resources to invest in high quality public services and infrastructure; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That Council 2 continue to work with other unions, community groups and activist organizations to fight for fair tax reforms that close the tax loopholes and giveaways to corporations and the wealthy so that America can fulfill its promise of shared prosperity.
Respectfully Submitted:
Pat Miller
Local 2170
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