Andrew Yang is coasting right now in the lead to follow Bill DeBlasio who is term limited out o0f the ‘Big Apple’ leadership….
(Remember Yang is fresh off of running for President…The other contenders are NOT)
Letting the word out about not raising taxes will play well for middle and upper class city dwellers ….
Of course business leaders will be happy…
(Yang IS a small business guy)
All of the above have had a rough economic year…
Some Progressives may not be happy about this …
But?
The next New York City Mayor will have the job of trying to bring business , workers , the arts and other things back to an inner city and make tax dollars from it…
It will NOT be say even if some think the economy is gonna come roaring back…
Andrew Yang, who’s leading the pack in his Democratic primary run for New York City mayor, recently told a group of high-powered business leaders that he doesn’t support raising taxes on New Yorkers — including the most wealthy.
Yang staked out the position last Wednesday at a meeting he had with the Partnership for New York City, which represents large businesses that employ more than 1 million people in the city, two sources who attended the virtual confab revealed.
“He was clear that he didn’t favor new taxes on New Yorkers, period,” one source said. “The guy is really confident he’s going to be the mayor. He said, ‘I’ll probably be the next mayor, and I want to work for all of you.’”
The source recalled being struck by Yang’s use of the word “for,” rather than “with” when he made the remark about working “for all of you” to the dozens of business leaders on the call.
Another source described his remarks as “an impressive performance,” noting with an ironic chuckle that he wasn’t “calling for tax increases on the evil rich.”
“He tells people what they want to hear,” that source said. “He clearly knew telling people he’s going to raise taxes is not what this group wants to hear….
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He is also on the record opposing the push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour because he believes it would spur further automation.
“This is one thing that drives me nuts about the left. I mean I run a small company,” he said in a 2019 interview. “Sometimes people imagine that, like, every business must be made of money. It’s totally not the case, particularly in this era of mega-consolidation,
Note…
The New York City min wage IS $15 a hour….
THAT issue is moot…..
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