CORPORATE TAX FOR EDUCATION

WHEREAS, the tax system currently operative in the USA is on all levels largely regressive; and

WHEREAS, teachers place themselves in difficult positions in urging increases in local taxes which are generally highly regressive (such as sales or property taxes); and

WHEREAS, by  educating and training students, the schools of our country are providing the corporations with trained personnel at no direct cost to the corporations:

RESOLVED, that AFT advocate federal legislation to increase the corporate tax to the parity that has existed between the corporate tax and individual income tax contributions in 1946, for the purpose of better financing public education; and

RESOLVED, that all state affiliates be urged to submit comparable legislation to their state legislatures.