Every now and then, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, a liberal Democrat in a city full of them, sounds like a Republican.

“Three percent of something is better than 8.95 percent of nothing,” Gray said in September as he rallied support for a package of tax breaks for technology companies. “We’re trying to attract revenue that we’re not getting now.”

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