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Zohran Mamdani: “You have to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers, New…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani joins 'GMA' to discuss victory

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

You're talking about free buses, you're talking about free childcare. Can you do that without raising taxes? I think you can do that. And I think You have to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers, New Yorkers who make more than a million dollars a year. And you do that by raising taxes on. By them, 2%. And then you also increase the corporate tax of New York State to match that of New Jersey. (00:45–00:51)

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Proposes raising taxes on New Yorkers earning over a million dollars annually.

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