Adriano Espaillat actually said...

"My feeling is that the tax incentive is sort of a touch of a feather, as far as the incentive that it creates for a company that is in real need of attracting a strong workforce."

"Let me remind you that you're talking about premium increases and you, yourself, have said that companies consider this to be a tax."

"But you said that if we do nothing this it's doomsday down the road."

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