City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and union leaders from District Council 37, the New York State Nurses Association, the New York State United Teachers, and several others gathered Feb. 10 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany to call on state legislators to create a millionaires tax to close a looming $6.1 billion deficit in the state budget.
The coalition announced that a survey of 1,000 registered voters across the state conducted by Hart Research Associates showed that 92 percent supported increasing taxes on billionaires and multi-millionaires.
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