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Eric Adams: “We're not giving anything away, if anything is a real win…”

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 00:30

Their children are not in our schools. We benefit from their discretionary spending. We benefit from this. We don't lose from this. We're not giving anything away, if anything is a real win for us. 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. (00:30–00:35)

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