Act Up and Occupy Wall Street and Allies Demands A Small Tax on Wall Street to End AIDS

On April 25th Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) from City Hall to Wall Street members of the Occupy Movement, Act Up and Allies joined in a massive rally demanding that a small tax be implemented on wall street inorder to end aids, which has been neglected for decades.

[except below from kansascity.com]

Longtime AIDS activists who have chanted in the streets for a quarter century joined supporters of the much newer Occupy Wall Street movement Wednesday in a march through lower Manhattan to demand better health services.

The protest marked 25 years since ACT UP - the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power - was formed in the same Wall Street neighborhood.

Now, the group is asking government to impose a small tax on each Wall Street trade - a so-called "Robin Hood tax" to finance treatment and services for people with HIV.

"We just want one tiny portion of each penny," said Sharon ann Lynch, an HIV policy adviser to Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization.

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[churchmousie]

How can you divide a penny up into pieces? And how "tiny" is each "portion"?

If you take the statement literally, since it's out of EACH penny, that comes out to be quite a significant amount of money.

[MagicKirin]

Why don't you ask for that same penny from the fat cat labor mafia