WITH JOE BIDEN, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY! LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK PUMPED $30 MILLION INTO JOE'S CAMPAIGN! THE RETURN ON THAT WILL BE $30 BILLION!
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream⎜WHY POVERTY?⎜(Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So&list=WL&index=19
The close collaboration between the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the multi-billion dollar asset management firm Blackrock (JOE BIDN’S BIGGEST BRIBSTER) in devising the March 2020 rescue operation for Wall Street has been revealed in an article published in the New York Times yesterday.
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (WANTS TO BE OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER) ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
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Ukraine Rejects Ceasefire with Russia at Davos ‘Peace’ Summit Ahead of World Economic Forum Meeting
Ukrainian officials vowed to continue the war against Russia until Moscow returns all of the occupied territory during a so-called peace summit in Davos, Switzerland ahead of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Switzerland hosted a meeting of 81 representatives from countries and international organisations in Davos on Sunday to discuss a formula “for a lasting and just peace in Ukraine”. American officials from the Biden administration attended the meeting, including U.S. special representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery Penny Pritzker and the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien, Reuters reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is expected to address the globalist World Economic Forum meeting later in the week, was represented in the talks by Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. There were no officials from the Kremlin in attendance.
Following the meeting, Yermak (pictured above, right) rejected the notion of a ceasefire between his country and Russia, claiming that it would only allow for Moscow to fortify its forces for another future attack on Ukraine.
“It’s definitely not the path to peace. The Russians do not want peace. They want domination. So, the choice is simple: either we lose and vanish – or win and live on. And we are fighting,” Yermak wrote on his personal Telegram channel.
“If international law and Ukraine’s territorial integrity are not restored, any aggressor anywhere in the world will be able to seize a piece of any country tomorrow and hold fake elections there. The peace that Ukraine seeks must guarantee its survival, integrity, sovereignty, and development. And it must prevent the recurrence of aggression. Together, we have created a comprehensive framework to achieve such peace. Its elements are closely interlinked, and this is the only way forward,” Yermak continued.
The Zelenksy advisor went on to hail the supposed success of Ukrainian forces over the past two years of war, saying that they have retaken 50 per cent of all territories seized by Russia since February of 2022.
However, while this claim may be technically true, the reality is that the vast amount of such territory was only held by Russia for days or weeks at the outset of the conflict, after which the conflict has remained mostly static, with Ukraine only managing to recapture tens of square miles compared to the tens of thousands of square miles still under Moscow’s control.
Despite Kyiv’s much-vaunted “Spring counteroffensive” failing to recapture any significant territory occupied by the heavily entrenched Russian forces last year, Zelensky’s government has maintained that it will not even consider entering into negotiations with the Kremlin until Russia withdraws and Ukraine’s 1991 borders are restored, meaning that Russia would have to retreat from its heavily entrenched positions in the Donbas as well as Crimea, which Vladimir Putin annexed and has controlled since 2014.
In his New Year’s address, Zelensky doubled down on this position, vowing that Ukraine will fight until “Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk region, Berdyansk, Melitopol, Mariupol” are liberated from Russian occupation.
Another key sticking point in any possible negotiations would be Ukraine’s continued aspirations to join the American-led NATO military alliance, which Moscow cited as a justification for launching its invasion two years ago, claiming that it would represent an existential threat to Russia. On Sunday, President Zelensky reiterated his intentions to join NATO.
Ahead of the talks in Davos, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed Zelensky’s proposed formula for peace as nothing more than a “set of ultimatums to Russia,” according to state news agency TASS.
“They are trying to compel us to retreat from the liberated areas and to leave the Russian people who voted for reunification with their homeland behind at the mercy of Ukrainian Nazis. They seek to take our country to a tribunal and to seize its legitimate assets in Western banks. Such ultimatums cannot lay the foundation for the start of negotiations,” she said.
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BlackRock Purchases the World’s Largest Infrastructure Manager
Jan. 12 (UPI) — Global asset manager BlackRock, Inc. announced Friday that it will purchase Global Infrastructure Partners, the world’s largest infrastructure manager in a cash and stock deal.
The companies issued a joint statement saying BlackRock will acquire 100 percent of GIP’s assets and business for $3 billion cash and roughly 12 million shares of Blackrock common stock.
The companies said the transaction creates “a market-leading, multi-asset class infrastructure investing platform with combined client assets under management of over $150 billion across equity, debt and solutions & strengthens deal flow and co-investment opportunities.”
Approximately 30 percent of the $3 billion cash and 12 million BlackRock stock shares will be deferred for approximately five years.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter 2024.
To make the deal happen BlackRock will take on $3 billion of additional debt.
BlackRock has more than $50 billion of infrastructure client assets under management on its own. GIP’s management team will lead the combined infrastructure management platform.
“Infrastructure is one of the most exciting long-term investment opportunities, as a number of structural shifts reshape the global economy,” BlackRock CEO and Chairman Laurence D. Fink said in a statement. “We believe the expansion of both physical and digital infrastructure will continue to accelerate, as governments prioritize self-sufficiency and security through increased domestic industrial capacity, energy independence, and onshoring or near-shoring of critical sectors.”
He added that policymakers are just starting to implement once-in-a-generation financial incentives for new infrastructure projects and tech.
In the United States, that includes the Biden administration’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that invests $1 trillion for national infrastructure over 10 years.
“We share with BlackRock a culture of collaboration, client focus, investment partnership, and commitment to excellence. Investors have adopted private infrastructure investing for its ability to provide stable cashflows, less correlated returns, and a hedge against inflation,” GIP CEO and founding partner Bayo Ogunlesi said in a statement.
Ogunlesi said the combined company will provide infrastructure management solutions for both “global corporates and the public sector.”
In August 2023, BlackRock announced it will work with New Zealand’s government using a $1.2 billion renewable electricity fund to help create an emissions-free power grid in New Zealand.
WHAT HAS JOE BIDEN EVER DONE FOR HOMELESS LEGALS???
They may also fund Biden’s $14 billion request to house and hide his growing population of poor migrants during the 2024 election.
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE LYING GAMER LAWYER MAYORKAS' 700,000 NUMBERS?
Biden’s pro-migration border chief — Alejandro Mayorkas — has already used the parole loophole to pull in roughly 700,000 economic migrants for jobs and homes in Americans’ neighborhoods.
BIDEN AND HIS CUBAN MAYORKAS HAVE ORCHESTRATED THE BIGGEST INVASION IN WORLD HISTORY! more to come!
Rand Paul Says Mitch McConnell Plans ‘Sellout’ on Border Security
The GOP’s Senate leadership is preparing to betray their voters on President Joe Biden’s migration flood, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), told Fox News on Tuesday.
The still-secret draft deal “is a sellout — it’s going to continue to allow illegal immigration ” because Democrats are threatening Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with an aid cut-off for Ukraine, Paul said before adding:
It’s saying, “Oh, we’ll let 5,000 people come illegally a day, and then after that, we might try to stop the next 5,000 that day.” It’s completely a sellout.
But it’s because people like Senator [Mitch] McConnell care more about Ukraine than anything else — more than the border, more than anything else. He wants to send $60 billion of your money to Ukraine. On this issue, he is more aligned with Biden. On the issue of funding, of sending your money to Ukraine and sending it everywhere around the world, McConnell is much more closely aligned with Biden than he is with the Republican Party.
Paul’s comments about the 5,000 daily limit refer to a so-called “trigger” in the draft deal that would reimpose a Title 42 legal barrier when the number of migrants reaches 5,000 per day.
But 5,000 per day adds up to 1.8 million migrants per year. That inflow is one migrant for every two U.S. births.
Under the draft, those 1.8 million illegal economic migrants would be allowed into the United States via legal loopholes such as asylum and parole. Once allowed in, they would be able to take jobs and wages needed by ordinary Americans, and to compete for homes needed by American families.
The 1.8 million inflow is in addition to the annual inflow of one million legal immigrants and the inflow of many short-term visa workers. In enacted, the deal would effectively double the nation’s immigration rate under the guise of a “border security” bill.
In addition, Senate GOP leaders may also allow Biden to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers via a novel “parole” pathway created by his deputies. They may also fund Biden’s $14 billion request to house and hide his growing population of poor migrants during the 2024 election.
A GOP betrayal of its voters on immigration likely would be lethal to the party’s future, especially because former President Donald Trump is expected to build his 2024 campaign around the issue.
The Biden-supported migrant inflow is so unpopular that half of the public — and a supermajority of Republicans — describe it as an “invasion” that burdens and threatens Americans and their society.
In contrast, Democrats are fighting to win GOP approval for legal tools and funds to manage — not reduce — their huge inflow of migrants.
“I think we are interested as Democrats in providing the administration with tools that will help better manage the border,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn), told reporters on January 9.
We are not interested in taking away from the administration [the] tools that they use today to help better manage the border. And so, when we talk about this topic of parole, it is very important to understand that it is used today as a way that the administration is able to better manage the flow [of migrants] in a planful way.
So far, the administration has managed the inflow of migrants upwards to boost investors’ stock values, but not to reduce the pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.
Some GOP Senators are demanding caps on the number of migrants allowed into the United States via the parole loophole.
“There are a couple of ideas out there about how to deal with it but the one that seems to have a lot of support is some sort of a cap along the lines of what we do with refugees and other categories of people who come into the country,” Sen. John Thune (R-SD), told reporters on Thursday.
“There’s a real strong opinion in our conference that this issue of parole’s got to be dealt with in some way … [Democrats] understand now that we’re serious about it,” he told reporters, according to TheHill.com. Thune, who is Sen. McConnell’s deputy, did not suggest a number for the cap.
The GOP’s House leadership, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), has repeatedly said that the parole pathway must be shut.
Biden’s pro-migration border chief — Alejandro Mayorkas — has already used the parole loophole to pull in roughly 700,000 economic migrants for jobs and homes in Americans’ neighborhoods.
RELATED: CNN’s Culver — Number of Illegal Chinese Migrants in ’23 Nearly Doubled Past Decade’s Total, Most Economic Migrants
Overall, Mayorkas has invited roughly 5 million illegal migrants to enter or remain in the United States, via a wide variety of illegal, legal, or quasi-legal routes.
His goals are to raise the status of migrants and to help investors, regardless of the massive pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans. In December 2022, for example, Mayorkas told ElPasoMatters.org:
We look to our partner to the north that has a much more nimble immigration system that can be retooled to the [national government’s] needs at the moment. For example, Canada is in need of 1 million workers and they have agreed that in 2023, they will admit 1.4 million … immigrants to fill that labor need that Canadians themselves cannot. We are stuck in antiquated laws that do not meet our current [corporate] needs.
This goal of a cheap-labor, migrant-inflated Wall Street economy– and the use of parole to create it — is backed by the FWD.us.
The group was founded by pro-migration West Coast investors to push the “Gang of Eight” amnesty and cheap labor bill in 2013. In 2021, pushed the Senate to confirm Mayorkas as homeland secretary. The wealthy founders include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who spent over $100 million to boost voter turnout in Democratic districts in the 2020 election.
FWD.us is rallying pro-migration groups to minimize curbs on parole migration amid signals that Biden’s deputies may accept parole curbs.
“None of this is what we should be doing,” Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, told a left-wing site, TheMessenger.com. “It’s certainly possible that a really harmful deal gets made and that would be tragic and terrible.”
Biden should not agree to rules that require the deportation of migrants or the detention of asylum seekers, said Schulte. “People are going to die if you do this — a lot of people,” he said.
Schulte’s all-out campaign to protect the parole loophole seems to have reversed the Democrats’ willingness to curb the parole loophole.
“We’ve got a couple of issues that I thought were resolved that are not resolved,” Sen. James Lankford told Semafor.com on January 8, when has was asked about parole.
The GOP Senators may not be trying to curb Mayorkas’s “CHNV” parole program which imports 360,000 people a year for jobs and wages that otherwise go to Americans.
Instead, they may only be trying to curb only the CBP One program, which is used at the border to give parole to perhaps 50,000 people per month, or 600,000 people per year.
“Lankford, after Senate GOP meeting, says the parole conversation is focused on CBP One app, where migrants can make appointments at ports of entry, seek to enter the US & receive parole,” said a January 9 tweet by Bloomberg Government.
The CHNV program was created in 2013 — likely in violation of a 1996 law — to import workers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Those eager, lower-wage migrant workers are welcomed by many CEOs because it means they do not have to hire, pay, train, and manage the less productive Americans who have fallen out of the workforce.
Immigration Policies Invite Robberies, Visa Fraud with Dangled Work Permits
Illegal migrants are staging robberies at their own illegal workplaces to get work permits and the life-changing bonanza of green cards and U.S. citizenship.
The latest example emerged in Massachusetts where prosecutors have arrested two Indian-born men who were hired to conduct fake robberies of Indian illegal workers at roughly 19 workplaces so the claimed victims could get U Visas and work permits from a federal program for crime victims.
“This is a common practice — mainly among Indians — to qualify for a U Visa,” said Jay Palmer, c0founder of The Forced Labor Project and a former immigration adviser to President Donald Trump’s administration.
Palmer works with many Indian migrants, and told Breitbart News:
They’ll hire someone to rob them at gunpoint — and even cause physical violence against them — with a witness. Sometimes the witness is a family member. Then family members — who are normally illegal too — will file [for a visa] claiming emotional distress or for a T Visa for [people who are] helping the police solve a crime.
Many want to be harmed, physically harmed, in order to get a hospital report. Many times, they’ll go to the emergency room where there is an Indian doctor there that relates to them. Sometimes the doctors are … coerced into overstating or exaggerating the injuries.
Once they apply for it, they can get biometrics [identity documents] and an Employment Authorization Document … [for] up to five years. They’re buying time to be legal to work in the United States while hoping and praying for some type of mass amnesty — and this comes straight from Indians — or some type of immigration reform that will make people who have been over here illegally or have overstayed their [temporary visa] welcome … to get some path to citizenship.
Even the application for a U Visa helps illegals evade deportation, Palmer said. “It’s like a parole [status] and if you get stopped [while driving] and you get questioned, you’ve got a case number and [when the cop] enters the case number into the databases it shows as ‘Case pending.'”
Many illegals also invent a story to explain why they are in the country, Palmer said:
The typical story goes like this: “I came over and my passports were stolen. I was scared to report the robbery because I was scared I would be immediately deported and I didn’t have all my information. So I stayed here and I got thrown into labor trafficking and I worked at so-and-so’s hotel, or I worked in a’ convenience store, then I was robbed at the convenience store. And I’m looking for a visa because I’ve been a victim twice.”
Migration fraud is commonplace because the potential payoff is huge for the illegals, their employers, and participating lawyers — but also because officials and local police have little incentive to fight the problem.
For example, successful fraud allows ambitious young men and women to leap from their impoverished and backward home countries into a wealthier life in the United States. The fraud also allows them to win citizenship for all of their future descendants, provide citizenship to many other people in their home countries, and skyrocket their social status in their home district.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is run by a pro-migration zealot, Alejandro Mayorkas. He has appointed like-minded advocates throughout the agencies, and since 2021, they have been using the U Visa program to sneak lucrative work permits to illegal migrants who claim to have been victims of crime. By September 30, more than 340,000 migrants had filed for U Visas even though only 10,000 U Visas are distributed each year.
Mayorkas also pushed the same pro-fraud policy when he was a top official in President Barack Obama’s DHS.
In January 2022, the Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security reported that the DHS’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office showed little interest in countering the fraud:
First, USCIS did not fully address U visa program fraud risks. We identified 10 USCIS approved petitions with forged, unauthorized, altered or suspicious law enforcement certifications. USCIS also did not track outcomes of U visa program fraud referrals. As a result, individuals may be discouraged from reporting suspected fraud and USCIS may miss opportunities to address fraud risks in the program.
The newest example was revealed on December 29, when the Department of Justice announced that two “New York men” were paid to stage eight robberies so that the supposed workplace victims could win work permits and green cards from Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security:
According to the charging documents, starting in March 2023, [Rambhai] Patel [born 1987] and his co-conspirators, including at times [Balwinder] Singh [born 1984], set up and carried out staged armed robberies of at least eight convenience/liquor stores and fast food restaurants across the United States, including at least four in Massachusetts. It is alleged that the purpose of the staged robberies was to allow the clerks present to claim that they were victims of a violent crime on an application for U nonimmigration status (U Visa). A U Visa is available to victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and who have been helpful to law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity.
In the course of the alleged staged robberies, the “robber” would threaten store clerks and/or owners with an apparent firearm before taking cash from the register and fleeing, while the interaction was captured on store surveillance video. The clerks and/or owners would then wait five or more minutes until the “robber” had escaped before calling police to report the “crime.” The “victims” are alleged to have each paid Patel to participate in the scheme. In turn, Patel allegedly paid the store owners for the use of their stores for the staged robbery.
The complaint notes, “Investigators have learned that this scheme is not unique. In at least two other jurisdictions, within the past few years, individuals have staged armed robberies, with the consent of the apparent victims, so that the “victims” could later apply for U-visas.”
The complaint says:
In early 2023, PATEL hired CW-1 to do construction at PATEL’s home in New York, which CW-1 did. Soon thereafter, PATEL told CW-1 that he had a job that would pay $1,500. PATEL explained to CW-1 that he would be going into stores to commit robberies and that the people inside the stores would be aware that they were going to be robbed. Furthermore, PATEL advised CW-1 that some of the people who acted as victims did not work at the store and traveled from out of state to take part in the staged robbery. CW-1 explained that those people posing as victims were doing so to “get papers” to allow them to stay in the country. PATEL told CW-1 that the victims would not call the police when CW-1 committed the robberies, but CW-1 later saw on the news that victims were in fact calling police after the robberies. At least initially, CW-1 had not expected the police to be called at all.
CW-1 said that each victim paid PATEL $10,000 to take part in the staged robberies for the purpose of receiving “papers.” PATEL knew the store owners and the store owners allowed their respective stores to be used for the staged robberies. CW-1 understood that the store owners were fully aware of the robberies. PATEL paid each owner $1,500 to $2,000 to use the store for a robbery.
CW-1 said that during most of the robberies, CW-1 communicated with PATEL via a Bluetooth headset. During the staged robberies, PATEL would be in contact with the target store’s owner or an employee who would notify PATEL when the store was empty. PATEL would in turn instruct CW-1 to go inside to “commit” the robbery.
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Furthermore, investigators believe that PATEL had direct access to a store insider and/or the store’s video surveillance system to coordinate the timing of the prospective robbery.
Federal agents monitored text messages between the supposed robbers and the business owners in October 2023:
[Cooperating Witness] CW-1 to Patel: “When go tell me”
Patel to CW-I: “Ok.”
CW-1 to Patel: “No one inside how many people”
CW-1 to Patel: “Check that”
Patel to CW-1: “One old lady and 1 guy inside”
CW-1 to Patel: “Soon they leave tell me”
Patel to CW-1: “Lady leaving”
Patel to CW-1: “Ok”
Patel to CW-1: “Leaving soon both”
The criminal complaint provided a list of the confirmed robberies:
However, the complaint also noted that “there are an approximately 11 additional robberies, beyond those listed, under investigation as potentially being linked to the SUBJECT PERSONS and the scheme outlined herein. ”
If convicted on the fraud charges, the two current defendants can be jailed for up to five years and be fined up to $250,000.
The number of fraud cases is also rising because Biden is admitting many illegal migrants on temporary status who have the incentive and U.S. wages to organize citizenship fraud. For example, Mayorkas has admitted roughly 200,000 Indian migrants and 100,000 Chinese migrants since 2021. There is no official evidence that significant numbers of those migrants have been sent home.
Biden is also admitting many legal migrants who then import illegal migrants to work for low wages at their businesses. For example. this illegal hiring is common among foreign managers who are imported with low-cost E-2 visas to run franchised hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and corner stores.
The result is a rapid growth of Indian illegal migrants throughout the United States. The population is expected to soon reach 1 million as Indian smugglers send more migrants along semi-legal “donkey routes” to the United States, Europe, and Australia. The population flow is so large that Bollywood is making movies about the movement:
The migration has created a growing number of foreign-run business islands inside the United States, said Palmer. The islands are growing because the foreign firms cooperate with each other, often ignore laws, and share cheap foreign employees under foreign workplace practices, such as a reliance on tax avoidance and foreign banking systems, he said.
The U Visa fraud occurs within these Indian economic islands, said Palmer. “A lot of these people are convenience store owners and hospitality and hotel owners who’ve come over on [temporary] F-1 [student] visas or B-1 [visitor visas] and overstayed their welcome,” he said. “It is widespread.”
Lawyers for the supposed victims in seven of the eight robberies filed paperwork for green cards, the charging document notes, saying “the PATEL PHONE was in contact with a telephone number that record checks indicated was associated with that attorney.”
Many of the foreign migrants are being used or imported to operate foreign-owned criminal enterprises, such as marijuana farms and telephone scams.
These expanding foreign economic islands overcome nearby law-abiding American companies who are disadvantaged by their compliance with tax laws and federal safety, health, and employment regulations, he said.
The economic islands also exile U.S. workers and American managers, partly because each of the foreign firms cannot survive an American whistleblower.
The government-supported migrant inflow is so unpopular among ordinary Americans that half of the public regards it as an “invasion” that burdens and threatens Americans and their society.
Adams on Taxes: We’re ‘Hemorrhaging’ ‘Working-Class People’ and Worried About Losing Tax Base
On Wednesday’s broadcast of WCNY’s “Capitol Pressroom,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) responded to a question on state tax policy by stating that “We’re seeing a hemorrhaging of, not only working-class people, but we’re concerned about losing that high tax base, because that tax base pays for our police officers, our teachers, our firefighters, keeps our streets clean.”
Host David Lombardo asked, [relevant exchange begins around 10:10] “Gov. Hochul (D) has repeatedly drawn a line in the sand on increasing taxes, and that’s something that came up again in her State of the State booklet. Is that the right decision, considering it will limit the state’s ability to send dollars to New York City at a time when serious cuts are on the table and you need aid from Albany?”
Adams responded, “Well, when you look at it, we are one of the highest-taxed states in the country outside of California, and you have to find the right balance. The last numbers that I checked, in New York City in general, 2% of New Yorkers pay 51% of our taxes. We’re seeing a hemorrhaging of, not only working-class people, but we’re concerned about losing that high tax base, because that tax base pays for our police officers, our teachers, our firefighters, keeps our streets clean. And so, she must find the right balance with the leaders in Albany of how do we come to an economic understanding without hurting our long‑term plan and our long‑term tax base? So, I respect her decision to make the right decision for New Yorkers.”
He added, “I’m sure that there are going to be those in Albany who [are] going to speak on raising income taxes, particularly for high-income earners. And I think this is the part of Albany where you sit down and come to a fair negotiation strategy to come up with a plan that everyone can live with.”
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