Michael Blake: “You have $2 billion of unclaimed fines and fees in New York…”

“Then the question is, which I have not heard anyone else articulating as directly as I am, how do you pay for this? It's nice to have great ideas, but how do you pay for this? First, You have $2 billion of unclaimed fines and fees in New York City primarily from parking tickets. Let's pursue that. Second, we need to have a vacant apartment tax, which, if you do that for someone that is not utilizing New York as a primary residence, that can generate $400 million by itself.” (09:02–09:09)

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