The simple truth is that the mayor's tax hikes have made it harder for working and middle-class New Yorkers to hold on to their homes, and also harder for other New Yorkers to buy homes.
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That's why I'll cut their taxes. That's why I'll also provide 167,000 affordable homes and apartments. Those fees, those fines, those penalties do little to help middle-class and working-class people be able to live in their own neighborhoods, to be able to live decently in their own city - to be able to pass on dreams and hope and opportunity to their children, to their families.Fernando Ferrer
There has to be a new bond, a new promise, a new covenant, with working people in this city that tells them we honor your work, that in New York, if you work hard and do right, the reward should be the tools you need to have to build a good life right here in this city.
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After you fought so hard for Amadou Diallo, after you went to jail for Amadou Diallo, how can you then turn around and say that you think it was justified
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honest leadership that doesn't waver or blow with the wind.
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Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.
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And you know what - You could do this city a big favor sometime by putting your check book away.
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