New York City’s likely next mayor would raise property taxes based on skin color.
Front-runner and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani said he would implement that proposal if, as polls project, he wins the Nov. 4 election.
Mr. Mamdani, whose agenda calls for free day care, free bus rides, government-run grocery stores and raising taxes on millionaires to pay for it all, said the city’s residential property taxes are inequitable. Homeowners living in neighborhoods populated by minorities pay too much in property taxes, and those living in wealthier, Whiter neighborhoods don’t pay enough, he said.
Mr. Mamdani, 34, said the time has come to “shift the burden” from the city’s outer boroughs to “richer” and “Whiter” neighborhoods.
He aims to end the city’s “unbalanced” property tax system, which caps annual increases at 6%.
“The mayor can fix this by pushing class assessment percentages down for everyone and adjusting rates up, effectively lowering tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones,” Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic Party nominee for mayor, explains on his campaign website.
This commie has got to go! If he wins, New Yorkers are going to be so sad and sorry and it will be too late to do anything about it. I don’t even know why he is allowed to run. Being a communist should automaticly make him ineligible to run for any office.
Big business doesn’t have to stay in NYC. If Mamdani is elected and puts the squeeze on businesses, they’ll bail and leave the rest of NYC holding the empty bag.
what if all the rich white folks moved out of the city? now who filps the bill?