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"The problem on all fronts is money, as the developer Larry Silverstein watches his contribution to the tower's building fund diminish and federal promises of the full $21 billion in post-9/11 aid grow fainter by the day. Only last week, the governor's office acknowledged that Mr. Pataki had appealed to President Bush to help convert $5 billion in tax breaks to cash in order to help the downtown area. This idea, floated earlier by Mayor Bloomberg's office, makes sense. The tax breaks would not help in Lower Manhattan as much as direct aid. But cash — estimated in the range of $2 billion to $3 billion — could certainly boost an area still suffering from the aftershocks of 9/11."
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