I don’t think the problem has ever been from small businesses, though, but large corporations exploiting the law and the need for tax revenue to essentially do what they want with NYC property. Small business owners are more likely to be fully embedded in the community they serve and less likely to have access to the means of entrenching corruption legally in public policy. That doesn’t mean that a small business owner can’t be corruption, but that the corruption is more likely to localized. It’s like the difference between owning a duplex and renting one side out and being Donald Trump and owning real estate that you don’t personally oversee yourself.
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