Posted on 06/27/2025 8:24:24 PM PDT by dennisw
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike property taxes for “richer and whiter neighborhoods” in an eyebrow-raising proposal The soak-the-rich proposal is buried in Mamdani’s campaign platform that calls to fix the city’s notoriously skewed property tax system, in which ritzy brownstones are hit at lower rates than homes and rentals in lower-income neighborhoods.
“Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods,” the proposal reads.
Democrats and many Republicans have long pushed to fix the out-of-whack system that ends up hitting poorer, often largely black and brown neighborhoods, with higher property taxes than their neighbors in swanky areas that tend to be majority Caucasian.
But Mamdani’s specific mention of “whiter,” wealthier neighborhoods drew outrage from some observers. Many right-wing commentators accused Mamdani, who would be the city’s first mayor of South Asian descent if elected, of targeting white New Yorkers, with one labeling him a “RACIST.”
City Councilman David Carr (R-Staten Island), who’s part of the bipartisan push to reform the property tax system, said Mamdani should tone down the “rhetoric” if he’s going to help tackle a very real imbalance.
“The objective of our reforms is to make our property tax system fairer and more transparent and to ensure that middle- and working-class homeowners aren’t subsidizing lower taxes for wealthy property owners,” Carr said.
“It’s not about blaming people based on race or class or political affiliation, and if Zohran Mamdani wants to come on board, then he should drop the divisive rhetoric.”
The city’s tangled property tax rules are the result of a 50-year-old court decision, a subsequent state law setting assessment caps to prevent middle-class owners from being taxed out of their homes and a complicated set of overlapping rules.
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Is he going to be the first guy to be sued for discrimination?? or what?
He wants to wreck civilization like a good commiecrat. P
He’s a pig.
........He’s a pig.”
And so are the people who voted for him. Oink oink.
Guess who voted for him.
The people in richer and whiter neighborhoods? Bingo!
It’s interesting how many people perceive economic woes being the result of not taxing enough, I.e., taking what is not theirs.
‘richer and whiter’ would mean more money to tax and less crime therefore less need for additional cops
Here’s hoping.
Yep. He is describing his primary voting bloc!
That’s how stupid they are.
What to do if you’re a wealthy NYC white person? Or even more of a challenge, if you’re a wealthy NYC white Jewish person?
Do you sell and get outta Dodge now, before property prices collapse?
Or do you hang tight and hope that either Mamdani does not win, or is not serious about his rhetoric?
There is a branch of mathematics that does the calculation, then tells you the best choice based on probabilities. I forget the name of that branch. But perhaps a Magic 8-Ball would do just as well.
🤔
GTFO RIGHT NOW.
Good advice.
And the kids love it because they finally have a way to get back at Boomer Dad for stealing all of “their”money.
Immigrants and the white working class voted for Cuomo (Bronx and Staten Island)
Targeting white people already. He wants to catch up with mor progressive South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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