Zohran (Zoran/Zohar) Mamdani
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And that is the future that we have to fight for.
I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law.
And that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about.
We will fund the revenue that would have otherwise been brought in from fares.
And that's something that we would do in partnership with Albany.
And I put forward two proposals.
The first is to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers by 2%.
That would raise $4 billion.
The second is to raise the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, which would raise $5 billion.
And to follow the advice of district attorneys that we have here in New York City, the current Manhattan DA, the former Manhattan DA, the current Brooklyn DA, the former Manhattan DA having said that prosecuting women for prostitution is something that actually leads to less safety.
And what we need to do is provide an economy of opportunity.
I do not think that we should be prosecuting women who are struggling, who are currently being thrown in jail and then being offered job opportunities.
I think we should be actually providing those kinds of opportunities at the first point of interaction.
He had more than 10 years, and he couldn't name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited.
And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves.
They want equality, and they want respect.
And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city.
And that, frankly, is something that is shameful and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics.
Yeah, except that is totally false.
I've worked with the Muslim community for many, many years.