National Nurses United Calls for "Robin Hood Tax" at NATO Summit

More than 3,000 nurses with National Nurses United, the largest registered nurses union in the county, gathered in Chicago last weekend to call for a tax on financial speculation, also known as the Robin Hood tax.

The Robin Hood tax is a sales tax on Wall Street trades that involve market speculation, and such a tax would bring in an estimated $350 billion to help the economy, hospitals and other community-based needs, according to the NNU.

Deborah Burger, RN, NNU's co-president, said she has been a nurse for 38 years and has "never seen our communities in such disarray." NNU has a total of 170,000 nurse members nationwide.

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