Andrew Cuomo: “People are leaving New York because the taxes are too high.”

“I want to talk about crime on the streets, mentally ill people on the streets. I want to talk about the fact that People are leaving New York because the taxes are too high. I want to talk about the fact that not enough businesses are moving to New York. So it's not just that the Democrats became obsessed with what I consider in many cases, superficial issues.” (12:41–12:45)

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