Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
TAXES
Digests of resolutions adopted by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis
between 1889 and 1974
1. We cannot sanction a project which makes the tax burden the same upon rich
and
poor alike. State income taxes, increased state inheritance taxes or graduated
levies
on capital constitute far more ethical means of meeting the problem of caring
for
our unemployed. (1932, p. 98)
2. National income should be distributed wisely through a radically revised
system
of taxation as follows: A rapid increase of surtaxes upon current incomes; a
marked
increase in inheritance taxes and gifts; a heavy tax upon corporation
surpluses and
reserves; removal of consumptive taxes upon commodities in current use. (1934,
p. 101)
3. A Sales tax is essentially unjust and should be repealed. The government
should
exercise its unlimited power to tax income, accumulated and current, in order
to
save the mass of people from misery. (1935, p. 80)