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Eric Adams: “You can't tax communities based on ethnicities.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 10:20

We did a great deal of work to tell these young girls and boys, don't sell your bodies on the street and be exploited. We're going to go backwards in that area. You can't tax communities based on ethnicities. You can't tax white communities based on their ethnicities. We saw that. What's happening now with African American and Asians and other communities are being taxed based on where they located. (10:20–10:24)

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Asserts that it is not permissible to tax communities based on ethnicities.

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