Zohran Mamdani: “There are so many echoes with the struggles here in New York…”

“That's absurd. That's got to be changed. So we led the effort in breaking our dependence on the property tax because it is a regressive tax. There are so many echoes with the struggles here in New York City, where you have a property tax system that so many have acknowledged for so long is broken. And yet there's the lack of political will to actually put forward a vision that would be fair. Wouldn't be easy, wouldn't be simple, but it would be fair.” (07:19–07:28)

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