The city council rejected a proposal to prevent job cuts at its weekly meeting Wednesday because it also contained a resolution to raise state income tax.

Councilor-At-Large Stephen J. Murray proposed the bill, which would prevent job cuts in the healthcare, education and childcare fields. The state has cut hundreds of employees in these fields in order to keep state income tax low.

‘People with lesser needs have been suffering, constituents are hurting,’ Murray said. ‘It’s not about numbers, it’s about the lives behind the numbers.’

City Councilor-At-Large Felix D. Arroyo also supported the bill, saying it would provide dignity and respect to the unemployed.

Several councilors, however, pushed to eliminate the resolution to raise state income tax.

‘This is a dangerous precedent,’ Councilor Paul J. Scapicchio (East Boston) said. ‘The citizens of Boston would be against this.’

According to Scapicchio, Boston residents almost voted to eliminate the state income tax a few years ago despite the threat of job cuts.

‘Looking at this bill, it would send a clear message to Boston that we need a council that doesn’t go against the state,’ Scapicchio said.

Other opponents of the bill included Councilor Michael P. Ross (Back Bay, Fenway), a Boston University graduate, and Councilor James M. Kelly (South End), who said the income tax question outweighed anything on the proposition.

‘The public is not excited about the thought of raising the income tax,’ Ross said.

‘A billion dollars in added taxes is clearly wrong,’ Kelly said.

Councilor Chuck Turner (Mission Hill, Dorchester), who supported the docket, called it ‘an issue of justice’ and blamed the already high income tax on large corporations, saying the state legislature is not concerned with the will of the voters.

‘The state, to increase their post,’ Turner said, ‘is appropriate.’

Council president Michael F. Flaherty ordered to send the docket back to the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, which works with the state government to pass laws for Boston and Massachusetts. The docket will be adjusted at a committee hearing.

Also discussed at the meeting was a request by Mayor Thomas M. Menino to allow council members to view crime statistics for their districts each month.

According to Councilor Robert Consalvo (Mattapan), only Boston Police can view crime statistics now.