Posted on 07/30/2026 5:52:41 PM PDT by Libloather
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman vowed to undo Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “oppressive” and “reckless” pied-à-terre tax if elected – as it was revealed the Big Apple plans to hire dozens of employees just to process the new fee.
Blakeman, who’s currently serving as the elected Nassau County executive, issued a dire warning Thursday saying state Democratic Party policies will drive more New Yorkers out of the city, which already carries a 12.5% local tax burden, the third highest in the country.
“This reckless tax will drive even more families, jobs, and investment out of our state, and middle-class New Yorkers will pay the price,” Blakeman said. “I will move to eliminate it on day one when I am elected governor.”
Blakeman also called out his opponent Hochul, who pushed the new tax through the state legislature as a lifeline to Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ran on a democratic socialist platform to tax the rich.
Although Hochul resisted calls to hike income taxes and corporate taxes to appease the fledgling mayor and his comrades, she offered Mamdani several bailouts to help him balance his first budget including the pied-a-terre tax — which puts a charge on expensive second homes in the city.
Blakeman blasted Hochul for allowing the Department of Finance to publish a list of all the Big Apple’s unoccupied non-primary residences worth more than $ 1 million — which included the names and addresses of the property owners.
“Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani’s new tax publicly targets homeowners, puts them at risk of crime, assumes they’re guilty, and forces them to prove they don’t owe the government more money,” Blakeman said.
The comments come amid a chaotic rollout of the new home tax, which included unanswered questions about how the city determined who might have to pay...
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Fetterman will help turn Pennsylvania. He may even switch parties. His parents have been Republicans forever. The problem is the wife...and a very uncomfortable couch.
I better not get one.
Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen blasts NYC Mayor Mamdani for sending him erroneous pied-à-terre tax letter
Watch, they’ll come after your home if you so much as take a vacation out of State.
Howz about using that axe on MunMuslimy next? We all know that total war with Islam is inevitable, may as well get started early.
If you move from NY, you have to prove you no longer live there to avoid any income tax.
If you own property in NYC, you have to prove you do live there to avoid the pied piper tax.
Folks should just pay the cheaper one and use that as proof for the other.
Not seeing it. At best, Fetterman switches to IND (with DEM underpinnings).
No, Blakeman won’t win, but the Manami effect might spill over to the 2 Democrats Long Island House seats.
Fingers crossed.
NY GOP governor candidate Bruce Blakeman trails Hochul by just 4 points in shocking new poll
New York voted for leftists and got leftists. Democracy in action.
Everyday New Yorkers going through hell to prove their homes aren’t pieds-à-terre — even brokers say none of it makes sense
https://nypost.com/2026/07/30/real-estate/i-am-going-through-the-pied-a-terre-exemption-process/
I went through the pied-à-terre appeals process and this is how ridiculously complicated it is
I think a few blue states might flip... My uncle in Connecticut said he seen more Ryan Fazio signs than in recent years...
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