Nurses: Tax Wall Street
Union members hold demonstration at City Plaza
On Thursday, Sept. 1, Chico-area nurses set up a “soup kitchen”—it served donated Mexican food, actually—at City Plaza in support of a “Main Street Campaign” by their union, National Nurses United, to compel Congress to put a tax on Wall Street financial transactions. Nurses in 61 other congressional districts took similar action that day. Placing a small tax on financial transactions would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue, which would go a long way toward solving the economic crisis Wall Street caused, the nurses state. For a comment on the tax, see Editorials.
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