| While at the Occupy Wall Street protests, ThinkProgress spoke to Ken Zinn, a staffer with the National Nurses Union -- the nation's largest nurses union, with nearly 160,000 members. Zinn's group is pushing for a financial transactions tax (FTT), which would enact a small tax on financial trading that could generate hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
Zinn says his group was motivated to join the protests and demand the tax because their patients all over the country are hurting, and it's "time that Wall Street gave back to this country": |
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