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Eric Adams: “We need billionaires, we need low-income workers so that we…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams Discusses New York City's Safety, Economic Vision, and Upcoming Mayoral Election

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

My belief that small businesses like bodegas and supermarkets are important. He wants to do government stores and put them out of business. My belief that the financial ecosystem, We need billionaires, we need low-income workers so that we can have a combined ecosystem. He doesn't believe that. I think that we should not be taxing communities based on their ethnicity. He believes differently. So New Yorkers are going to be able to say, who are we as a city? (00:51–01:02)

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Asserts the necessity of both billionaires and low-income workers for a balanced economic ecosystem.

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