To start off with, he's proposing a massive tax increase on the citizens of New York that will result in rents going up. And there is an irony in this and that he [Comrade Mandami] campaigned on saying he was going to freeze rents, but then he discovered... you need money to run a city. particularly if you want to run a socialist city where you want to spend massive amounts of money. And so we're going to break down what he's doing. (02:04–02:13)
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Asserts that Comrade Mandami campaigned on freezing rents but is now facing financial realities.
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