So I'll ask you, will you commit right now that you won't raise taxes on New Yorkers? Yeah, we can't raise taxes, Bill. We can't. They have been raised to a level where we're not competitive post Covid, People have mobility. You are now competing geographically in a way you never did before. As I said, I was the HUD secretary. I worked with cities all across the nation. You now have cities competing. New York is competing with Texas, with Florida, South Carolina, and people will shop economics. (04:49–04:56)
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Asserts that post-COVID, people have increased geographic mobility affecting competition among cities.
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