Qasim Rashid
speaker
1,282 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 7 Aug
Qasim Rashid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Look, I think what I'm really impressed with Zoran Mamdani about is the things he's talking about are actually not pie in the sky ideas.
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It's actually pretty straightforward stuff.
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Raising the corporate tax rate, not to some astronomical level, but simply to what it is across the river.
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What New Jersey has, why can't New York have the exact same corporate tax rate?
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You're talking about people making more than a million a year, 2%.
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taxes on them.
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Well, but I think at the end of the day that we've seen this model work elsewhere.
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Boston, the city of Boston, Massachusetts, raised their taxes on the super wealthy and they have no record of millionaires leaving.
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And in fact, they generated they thought they would generate two billion in extra revenue.
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They generated more than four billion.
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in revenue.
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Minnesota did a similar thing of raising taxes on the super wealthy, and it generated a lot more revenue.
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And I think what's important to understand is that what we're seeing right now at this moment in American history is unprecedented levels of wealth and income inequality.
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You just had an ad about depression.
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The studies show that for every one dollar you raise in someone's living wage, you decrease suicide rates by a percent in that locality.
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So people are literally dying due to poverty and due to the suffering of that as well.
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I will say just really quickly, I always chuckle when I hear people say, well, you can't.
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How are you going to pay for 700 million in free bus fares?
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Every year, New York City spends $1.5 billion in police misconduct.
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Just take half of that.
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