Posted on 09/08/2025 4:28:52 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, said Sunday he hoped to convince wealthy New York City residents that paying increased taxes would improve "even their quality of life."
"How do you bring these wealthy residents to the table as mayor? Stop them from saying they’re leaving, going to Florida because we need that tax revenue to pay for some of the things you’re talking about. How do you pay for it if they’re gone?" MSNBC "PoliticsNation" host Rev. Al Sharpton asked Mamdani.
Mamdani said the top 1% of earners in the city make about $1 million annually and stressed he wants them to remain. Sharpton followed up, "How do you get them to stay?"
"In part by showing them that asking them to pay more in taxes would increase even their quality of life. Because when you ask New Yorkers what is it that is making them feel uneasy in this city, you often hear from them about the cleanliness of our city, the safety of our city, the affordability of our city. We are not asking to raise these taxes for the sake of it," Mamdani responded.
Mamdani said he wants wealthier New Yorkers to pay more taxes to fund free buses and create a new Department of Community Safety.
"That relationship, proving that that tax dollar leads to that investment, because we know that it’s not just a fiscal policy that takes somebody from New York City to somewhere else," he continued.
Mamdani argued that New Yorkers leave for other high-tax states, such as California and New Jersey.
"For the top 1%, we’d raise their personal income tax by 2%. So that would be if you make $1 million a year, $20,000 extra in taxes.
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NO END TO HIS “DEMANDS”
Or they could move to a red state and have both lower taxes and a better quality of life.
I knew he was a single digit I.Q. midget.
White guilt always works with idiot libs. They DESERVE to get fleeced
How much do you have to pay people so they don’t commit crime? Biden and Hillary weren’t paid enough.
Exactly.
“Mamdani wants to convince NYC’s wealthy residents paying more taxes would better their quality of life”
Polar opposite of what the founders of this nation wanted for their descendants.
And I’ll bet he’ll be the next mayor of NYC.
Correct.
They bring this madness on themselves.
What a freaking ignorant ignoramus.
How does confiscating wealth from the top earners to give free stuff to the poorest improve quality of life for the top earners?
They probably agree! 🐑 🐑
When has that ever worked? NY-ers pay over 50% of their income on taxes, and do they feel any safer?
Gee,with all the promises for the free stuff he is going to give away he has to get it from somewhere.
MORONdami! 😠
I’ve never been wealthy so I may be wrong, but don’t wealthy and savvy people usually have some kind of tax strategy to avoid being taxed?
Snooty NYers - even the democraps - don’t care about your free transportation and department of feelings.
As I said, I could be wrong.
They’re chumps. They’re easy marks.
They don’t have any idea what it is like to start out poor or lacking money and have to struggle to get ahead.
They vote with the Marxists who are all take and no give.
Imagine you built a large business empire. And then some looter who never did anything but sponge off of others comes to set you straight. This is beyond comedy.
Hes making them an offer they cant refuse.
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