Here’s Bill Perkins, who represents the Harlem district David Paterson represented before becoming lieutenant governor.
Towards the end of our two-minute chat about what he hopes to hear in Paterson’s economic speech later today, Perkins makes the case for raising taxes on those who “benefited from what I consider to be an unfair tax structure.” He goes on to say, “I don’t think we should be, in that respect, looking at those who have wealth as sacred cows.”