And he said, well, I don't have a plan, but I think I should just hold the money. And I stopped him. So sometimes I have to have the strength. And I saved the city literally $5 billion in debt and debt service of 500 million. So some of it is not only how you raise revenue, it's also stopping bad things from happening that cost us money in the long run. Yeah. (39:04–39:11)
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