Zohran Mamdani: “Increasing taxes on the very wealthiest [was a way to…”

“That itself is going to raise half a billion dollars for New York City alone. So all of these ways of having a fair relationship with Albany, of Increasing taxes on the very wealthiest [was a way to achieve a balanced budget]. and of actually finding the savings and the efficiencies in city government that have for a long time just been tolerated, because that's how things are.” (14:03–14:06)

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