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Eric Adams: “Once we got in and we saw that it was a benefit, I believe…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams: I was wrong about the pied-à-terre tax

Published | Video Starts at 00:42

And after we sat down and talked about it, we were not going to hold onto our policy just because, okay, this is what we said on the campaign trail. We wanted to do an analysis. Once we got in and we saw that it was a benefit, I believe they moved too quickly. They should have done a further analysis to see what's the benefits of it. But do you think there is value to it? Do you think there's value to the tax? (00:42–00:47)

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Asserts that further analysis showed the pied-à-terre tax was not beneficial and was rushed.

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