Mamdani’s ‘enemies of the people’ pied-à-terre tax – Latest News
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has doubled down on his “Eat the rich” marketing campaign by publishing a checklist of a whole lot of 1000’s of New Yorkers guilty of . . . proudly owning an condo.
The metropolis Department of Finance launched an “enemies list” of property homeowners who could be coated by the new non-resident “pied-a-terre” tax — a type of one-stop class-warfare purchasing checklist for antifa radicals searching for targets.
Mind you, publicizing the checklist serves no good function: The metropolis is mailing all these homeowners asking them to make clear in the event that they don’t qualify for the new tax, so this publicity isn’t about informing them, it’s about scaring them.
Worse: As the DoF web site admits, the checklist “is not limited to, those properties that may be subject to the surcharge,” which means most of the checklist isn’t related to the new tax.
Above all, many people on the checklist are the main residents of the properties they own, which may be a apartment or coop that will sell at $1 million or more — which incorporates a ton of one-bedroom pads in at this time’s market.
Too dangerous for you in case your modest residence is now a goal for some anarchist disgruntled about his own poor station in life.
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Worse but, the complete factor is slapdash, blatantly generated with no human bothering to look at it.
Consider: Who’s not paying their “fair share” on the $37 million brownstone at 1033 Fifth Ave., throughout the avenue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Why, the Islamic Republic of Iran, that’s who — and lots of different tax-exempt diplomatic buildings additionally made the checklist.
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Why did no one at City Hall stop this amateur-hour idiocy?
Because the Democratic Socialist crew is obsessive about naming and shaming their “class enemies”: As national DSA co-chair Megan Romer defined on Fox News Sunday, “We will win by making conditions so intolerable to the ruling class that they would rather give in to our demands than live with the disturbance we cause.”
They need everybody proudly owning personal property to concern their wrath.
Take discover: When anyone places you on their enemies checklist, they imply it.
