Michael Blake: “You generate the revenue by encouraging and bringing back…”

“It seems like in order to do that, you're going to have to raise taxes. The money has to come from somewhere. You generate the revenue by encouraging and bringing back businesses into the city who have not been here. who have felt that the city has not been safe for them. Because we're actually not keeping streets clean. We're actually not making sure that their windows not being vandalized.” (04:11–04:16)

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