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Eric Adams: “Billionaires in the city who pay 50% of our taxes.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 33:55

We've come so far. Do we want to go back? Do we want to go back to the running off, running out millionaires and saying that you don't want Billionaires in the city who pay 50% of our taxes. That's how we have teachers and firefighters in our streets paid. Do they want people who want to destabilize our local supermarkets by saying, you have been government run supermarkets. (33:55–33:59)

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Asserts that billionaires pay 50% of the taxes in the city.

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