Beware of any politician who gleefully celebrates taxation like normal people would a sacred holiday.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it\u2019s too late for us New Yorkers. Our city foolishly elected Zohran Mamdani, who promised big government and the \u201cwarmth of collectivism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zohran Mamdani gleefully announced a new tax for the wealthy in New York City. @NYCMayor \/X<\/p>\n
And in a new video posted Wednesday<\/a>, Mamdani marked tax day by announcing the state\u2019s new pied-a-terre tax that will slap an annual fee (on top of existing property tax) for people who own a second home here that is valued at over $5 million.<\/p>\n Mamdani estimates the new taxes will raise $500 million.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich,\u201d he said over haunting music that sounded like it was from the \u201cSuccession\u201d soundtrack.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsten Fleming<\/p>\n The proud socialist then shoved his smug mug into the lens of the camera looking all of us dead in the eye. He tapped the camera and declared: \u201cWell today, we\u2019re taxing the rich.\u201d He might as well have been licking his chops.<\/p>\n In a video to announce the state\u2019s new pied-a-terre tax, Mamdani pushed his face into the camera, tapped the lens and announced \u201ctoday we\u2019re taxing the rich.\u201d @NYCMayor \/X<\/p>\n His extreme close-up immediately conjured up the image of Mark Wahlberg\u2019s unhinged character in \u201cFear,\u201d menacingly shoving his face into a security camera as he\u2019s about to break into the home of his girlfriend and terrorize her family.<\/p>\n It was fitting.<\/p>\n Because he stuck his deranged face into the camera to instill his own kind of fear \u2014 into the wealthy and successful, who live, work or own property here.<\/p>\n He even disgustingly called out one, and only one billionaire by name and pointed to his deluxe apartment in the sky.<\/p>\n To promote his new tax, Zohran Mamdani chose to stand outside of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin\u2019s apartment in the Big Apple and reference him by name. @NYCMayor \/X<\/p>\n \u201cLike for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million<\/a>,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n It was vengeful. It was reckless. It was chilling.<\/p>\n Especially since a lunatic by the name of Luigi Mangione is about to stand trial<\/a>, charged with the assassination of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of Manhattan in late 2024.<\/p>\n That early morning murder in Midtown opened a portal to hell. Not just to wanton violence against the powerful, but for the elevation of Mangione to sainthood by the disgruntled lefties who hold the twisted belief that any kind of violence against the wealthy is not only justified, it is righteous.<\/p>\n And in that vein, it felt like Mamdani was symbolically offering Griffin up as sacrifice to the blood suckers who chant \u201ctax the rich\u201d at DSA rallies.<\/p>\n Citadel CEO Ken Griffin was specifically called out by Mamdani in a video to announce the state\u2019s new pied-a-terre tax. REUTERS<\/p>\n Come and git \u2018em, kids!<\/p>\n Griffin is a tax paying private citizen, whose company has a Park Avenue office and employs New Yorkers. Though he lives in Miami, he is already paying oodles of property tax here and also supports many museums and causes through his philanthropic work.<\/p>\n He is generous to the city. Some thank you note from the mayor.<\/a><\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s act of invoking Griffin\u2019s name was also dripping with hypocrisy.<\/p>\n Zohran Mamdani has declared his wife Rama Duwaji, a \u201cprivate person\u201d who is off limits to scrutiny. James Keivom<\/p>\n As one may recall, Mamdani\u2019s wife Rama Duwaji has an incredibly odious history of social media activity that includes liking posts supporting terrorists and claiming the October 7th massacre by Hamas was actually just a \u201cmass rape hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani, a man who regularly takes to X to express his \u201coutrage\u201d over one thing or another had none to spare for his wife\u2019s bigotry because she\u2019s a \u201cprivate person<\/a>, who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n Therefore, he feels she is not fair game for scrutiny.<\/p>\n Except for the fact she is the First Lady of New York City and lives in a mansion paid for by tax dollars.<\/p>\n To Mamdani, Griffin is fair game to name check in such a fraught discourse, so long as it furthers his insane eat the rich agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n