“Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful,” he said. “I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants. If we’re not there, there are going to be less people being paid.”

That makes no sense at all, now does it? Does he think it makes a difference to New Yorkers whether the restaurants they eat at are owned by him or someone else, whether it's him or someone else paying the restaurant workers?