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Donovan Richards: “Billionaires are making more and our city's becoming less…”

Featuring: Donovan Richards, Democratic | Borough President of Queens | New York

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Queens Borough President: We Have To Find 'The Political Courage' To Increase Taxes On Ultra-Rich

Published | Video Starts at 07:46

I think we do, as Democrats have to look at this seriously. I think anybody, whether you're Democrat, Republican, conservative, whatever, you are progressive, it doesn't matter. The bottom line is Billionaires are making more and our city's becoming less affordable. So we do have to solve for this issue. In the long term. But in the short term, what we can do is definitely look at those efficiencies through his saving officers and each agency go back to the state. (07:46–07:52)

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Asserts that billionaires are increasing their wealth while the city becomes less affordable.

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