Cuomo begs wealthy New Yorkers to come back to save the city and pleads 'I'll buy you a drink!' as he fights off calls to raise their taxes - which he fears may scare them away forever
Cuomo said on Tuesday that he speaks to the city's wealthiest residents 'every day', begging them to come back
Many fled for the Hamptons, upstate New York or Connecticut when the pandemic hit
By May, at least 420,000 of the city's wealthiest residents had fled the city
Their exodus was cemented when riots and looting tore through the city in June
Now, there are calls for higher taxes on the super wealthy to offset the projected $30billion deficit New York is facing over the next two years
Cuomo is resisting it, saying it will only drive the billionaires out of the city for good
He is furious that there remains no national plan to tackle COVID-19, and says the ongoing catastrophe in other states is holding New York back
Crime is up in New York City with a shocking 286% in robberies on the Upper East Side alone, shootings have gone up and arrests have halved
The NYPD lost $1billion from its budget in the wake of the BLM movement
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 08:57 EDT, 5 August 2020 | Updated: 17:07 EDT, 5 August 2020
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