re: #293 Gus

OK, he didn’t say that. Found it here:

In Conversation: Michael Bloomberg

I somehow doubt, even then, that the “very fortunate” are really that key to the NYC tax base. Especially compared to the middle class denizens of the city.

The statement itself could also be taken as a claim that the city residents absorb a heavy services burden to cover non-residents that commute into the city for their jobs and are not charged taxes/fees in proper relation to those services.