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Eric Adams: “You can't have a body of people that pays 41% of our taxes…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Former Mayor Eric Adams Talks Housing Policy, Crime & Life After City Hall | Coffee Talk

Published | Video Starts at 20:20

That's a great question. And so let's understand this. This is very important because there is a balance in the city that you need for the city to function. You can't have a body of people that pays 41% of our taxes being disgruntled. and saying, well, I'm just not going to build, I'm going to stop building. Because you don't build to break even, because there's a lot of risk. (20:20–20:30)

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Asserts that a group paying 41% of city taxes is disgruntled.

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