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Zohran Mamdani: “Raising personal income taxes on the top 1% of New…”

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Published | Video Starts at 10:08

And it's a choice I believe we have to make for working New Yorkers. And I think that there are two clear revenue streams to raise the money necessary to and that is, that is Raising personal income taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers...would raise $9 billion. Yorkers. That's New Yorkers who make a million dollars or more a year by 2%. And raising the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey. (10:08–10:20)

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Asserts that increasing taxes on the top 1% of earners would generate $9 billion.

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