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Eric Adams: “Mayors can't raise income taxes. Assemblyman can.”

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He says, well, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to tax the 1 percenters in New York and I'm going to get the $3 billion from them. Here's the problem. Mayors can't raise income taxes. Assemblyman can. He's an assemblyman. He didn't do it. So why does he believe he's going to do it now when the governor said that is not going to happen? (11:30–11:36)

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Asserts that mayors cannot raise income taxes, but assemblymen can.

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