Tax Wall Street to Heal America

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/31-1

The nation's nurses are calling for a tax on financial transactions to begin raising the revenue needed to fix the nation's growing social crisis.

National Nurses United, America's largest union of RNs, is sounding an alarm.

We've organized rallies in New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, as well as in Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, and Florida, other states and cities. We've held demonstrations at 60 congressional field offices. And we've joined the Occupy Together movement as first aid volunteers in more than a dozen sites, including on Wall Street, where it all started.



Through these actions and others, we're drawing attention to a national emergency and calling for a tiny but potentially powerful tax on financial transactions. This simple step would amass up to $350 billion annually in this country as part of a global push for revenue desperately needed here and elsewhere around the world.

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