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Kathy Hochul: “We collected more in sales tax. As a result, unanticipated…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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Governor Kathy Hochul's Announcement on Inflation Relief and Tax Cuts for New York Families at Harlem Center

Published | Video Starts at 04:52

It says that for the last few years, with the price of everything going up, the little kids clothes and the diapers and your kids backpacks and adults prices, everything going up, all the things you need for work, We collected more in sales tax. As a result, unanticipated revenue. I said, this can go into the state coffers, but why not give it back to the residents whose pockets it came out of? They paid more than they ever expected. (04:52–04:57)

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Asserts that there was unanticipated revenue from increased sales tax collection.

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