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Andrew Cuomo: “The experiment has been tried and has failed.”

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Maybe put them out of business, maybe cost jobs and there'd be one per borough which would be overwhelmed. Just imagine one store in Brooklyn and all of Brooklyn going to the one store. And most of all, The experiment has been tried and has failed. And once again, there's no income threshold. So it's a government run store and rich people can go there to shop. Why would you subsidize rich people's purchase of food? (08:31–08:38)

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