Communist Zohran Mamdani Is Taxing All Luxury Part-Time Homes in NYC

Filthy Terrorist Theater Kid is imposing a so-called pied-a-terre tax on millionaire's apartments, if they only live there part of the year. In other words, if they're a pied-a-terre, a little place in the city to take your mistresses to. A foot on the ground, the term means, approximately. A little place in the city you can visit when you're bored of your country estate.

He's bragging about this and grinning like a chimp.

In other words, he's directly taxing his bicoastal/bisexual celebrity supporters.

Do I even object to this? I think this makes me happy.

The worse the better, as bitter old communists say -- the worse this corrupt system gets, the better for all of mankind, because it will hasten the revolution.

Let them turn their cities into dust and then tell us "Real socialism has never been tried!!1!"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal on April 15 to tax expensive second homes as a sign of a progressive tide to tax the rich, but it will only apply to absentee owners.
The pied-à-terre tax puts an annual surcharge on homes valued above $5 million when there is no resident who lives primarily in New York City. The tax, which would need to be passed in the state's delayed budget, would generate some $500 million in revenue annually, according to Hochul's office.
"If you can afford a $5 million second home that sits empty most of the year, you can afford to contribute like every other New Yorker," Hochul said in a statement. Non-resident owners do not pay New York City's income taxes. To avoid taxation, property owners could make the home their primary residence or rent it out someone else who does so.
Hochul, a moderate Democrat up for re-election in November, has been hesitant to raise taxes, which the city cannot do without the state government's permission. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, ran for mayor on a platform of free buses, universal childcare and city-run grocery stores paid for in part by levying higher taxes on the rich.

The filthy communist's Death Cult Whore wife has previously celebrated terrorism and especially the October 7 massacre, and has been ever so slightly pressured -- not by the media or Democrats, mind you -- to offer a weak, half-hearted, insincere apology about writing the word "n****r" and posting slurs about gays.

But about praising Muslim murderers who slaughter civilians? Nope, no apologies for that!

Yesterday, Duwaji finally apologized for her comments during an interview with a hand-picked art critic. Only, her apology was pretty limited.

Rama Duwaji, the wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, apologized in an interview published on Wednesday by the art site Hyperallergic for using the N-word as a 15-year-old in social media posts that a conservative news site recently unearthed.
The news site, The Free Beacon, also reported that when Ms. Duwaji was 15, she had tweeted an abbreviation of a slur for gay people.
"When a tabloid recently published old tweets I wrote as a teenager, I felt a lot of shame being confronted with language I used that is so harmful to others," she said. "Being 15 doesn't excuse it. I've read and seen a lot of what others have had to say in response, and I understand the hurt I caused and am truly sorry."
So she's sorry about the N-word and the gay slur when she was 15. And look, even I said that no one really cares about things she said when she was 15. Every 15-year-old says dumb things. What about the pro-terrorist stuff when she was 20 or praising Hamas even more recently?

Asked to explain which social media posts Ms. Duwaji was apologizing for, a spokeswoman for the mayor declined to comment...
Ms. Duwaji also did not appear to address some of her more recent social media activity that has also drawn criticism.
She had liked posts appearing to celebrate Hamas's deadly attack on Israel, right after Oct. 7, 2023...
She also attracted scrutiny for providing an illustration for a story included in a compilation curated by Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian American author who has described the Oct. 7 attack as "a spectacular moment that shocked the world." On Wednesday, Ms. Abulhawa posted on X that "Israelis and all zionists are parasitic filth."

They mayor "declined to comment" and Ms. Duwaji just refused to apologize for praising hijackers and Hamas. They already know this is going to just go away.

Oh, and Mamdani will be opening one (1) "government supermarket." It will cost 30 fucking million dollars and won't open until... 2029.

Without a doubt, government must do more because it does it so well and so efficiently.

And also, no Democrats are getting their palms greased in this boondoggle. They're totally not foreign pirates plundering our money from us at every turn.

Socialist communist Zohran Mamdani prances around NYC like a delusional commie.
Promised to tax the rich, now screwing Ken Griffin’s $238M penthouse with the first pied-à-terre tax!”
Thinks this pathetic wealth grab is brilliant while crime, migrants, and failing schools turn NYC… pic.twitter.com/3EFJDuX43S
— Trump Girl (@TrumpGirlLove) April 15, 2026

Trump on Zohran Mamdani:

He's a nice guy. Calls me all the time, says hi. But his policies are no good. He's chasing people out and causing a lot of harm to everybody. pic.twitter.com/Ti9E4ETrHM
— Viory Video (@vioryvideo) April 17, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:15 PM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 03:16 PM (w7b8o)

2

HaHa,

They voted for it so it's coming home to roost.''

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:16 PM (3ek7K)

3 Death and taxes

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 03:17 PM (w7b8o)

4

What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:17 PM (3ek7K)

5 Let Them Eat Islamunism.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:18 PM (FpHTM)

6 4

What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:17 PM (3ek7K)

"I owned the chuds right and good this time!"

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:18 PM (FpHTM)

7 Can he tax the air?

The CO2 everyone exhales?

The water that hits you when it rains and then the city has to clean in its water treatment plants?

Come on, Mamdani, there's so many more ways to tax! Get going!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:18 PM (B5oTI)

8 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:18 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Oh, and Mamdani will be opening one (1) "government supermarket." It will cost 30 fucking million dollars and won't open until... 2029.

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Per foot, that's 10x the price of a Whole Foods.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:19 PM (B5oTI)

10 Trump is a master troller of the commie-Left

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at April 17, 2026 03:20 PM (EP7Sw)

11 Get out if you can Conservatives before you get robbed

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)

12 Corgis summoned

Posted by: SciVo at April 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Sy6m/)

13
I don't care what happens in foreign countries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:21 PM (tgvbd)

14 >> Do I even object to this? I think this makes me happy.

Dude. I’m still waiting to start our Crowmance. I think that would make you happy. BTS it’s going to take more than peanuts, you cheapskate.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:22 PM (zQLjY)

15 Lot of foreigners own multi million dollar apartments in NYC .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 17, 2026 03:22 PM (0cOSz)

16 Pretty soon NYC is going to have to *pay* people to live there.

Oh, who am I kidding? They probably already do!

Posted by: pookysgirl likes her cold and blustery Iowa at April 17, 2026 03:22 PM (Wt5PA)

17 Moar of this, please.

Let them be an example of what Socialism brings; destruction of wealth, poverty, suffering.

J.J. Sefton was smart to get out.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 17, 2026 03:22 PM (qFwJc)

18
Lot of foreigners own multi million dollar apartments in NYC .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 17, 2026 03:22 PM (0cOSz)

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Izzat so? I don't mind foreigners being despoiled.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:23 PM (tgvbd)

19
Oh, no!
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Anyway,...

Posted by: People who don't live in NYC at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (A+zd0)

20
From the Daily Mail. He didn't marry her for her money!
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Mamdani and Duwaji's relatively low income is partly due to the first lady's measly contribution - only $10,010 before taxes and expenses from her visual design business last year, according to their tax return.

After deducting costs such as $500 for 'art supplies,' her net income fell to $8,860 -well below the 2025 federal poverty threshold for individuals, which was $15,650.

Duwaji's modest earnings were supplemented by Mamdani, who brought in $131,926 before taxes from his Assembly salary, along with $1,600 in royalty payments from songs he produced under his hip-hop alias, 'Mr Cardamom.'

Posted by: beckster at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (kX27y)

21 You really have to appreciate the fact that NYS is increasingly dependent on billionaires and millionaires for their tax haul since most normal people are moving. Yet there is the Muslim invader, their guy, grinning like a Cheshire Cat as he tells them he’s gonna bend them over a goat.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (zQLjY)

22
Finally! I've been OT'ing about this pied-a-terre tax for a day and a half.

I won't go over all my scribblings again, but some moron (one of the Bs -- Berserker, or Braenyard?) pointed out that taxes are never intended to fund social services; they're policy tools.

But I can't resist, so: So many things about it make no sense to me. Tax people more because they use city services less? And how do you figure out what makes someone a pied-a-terre person vs a full-time resident who travels a lot?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (n7rxJ)

23 Hochul is a moderate democrat. lol

Posted by: From about That Time at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (sl73Y)

24 The TV show Million Dollar Listing NYC will change to Thousand Dollar Listing.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (0cOSz)

25 >>>In other words, he's directly taxing his bicoastal/bisexual celebrity supporters.

lolgf, as the kids say.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (dK+Kv)

26 Amelia Bedelia >>>>>>> Commie Mamdani

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (LxER7)

27 Meh. 1,500 miles away from me.

The Leftist town of Manhattan, Kansas benefited because we (me and my peeps) helped elect a conservative majority on the City Council for 7 years and as County Commissioners for 5 years.

The Left struck back, but this last election we are righting the ship again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (u82oZ)

28 The reason suburban NY and NJ are some of the only real estate markets supporting higher home prices is the exodus out of NYC.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (zQLjY)

29 Nothing worse than whiney rich people NOT from NYC whining about NYC whilst living in texas. fuck those guys.

The tax is going to apply to apartments of $5 million or more. Property selloffs of those apartments are not going to impact the regular rental market in any way.

Oh ffs. The uber-rich argue both that this tax would drive them out of the city and that it wouldn't really generate much revenue. 'Others...described the plan as "class warfare"'.

It is, and the obscenely wealthy are starting to lose.

It’s funny that these arguments assume that rich people buy property in NYC because it’s affordable, and not because it’s the most culturally dense world class city in America

Also assumes that when they leave, these properties will be vacant for years to come. As if there is a shortage of people trying to move to NYC

lmfao acting like there aren’t a ton of high earners who want to live in the city. worthless florida leeches crying that they can’t leech housing off of people who actually want to live in the city.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (JCZqz)

30 Oh, and Mamdani will be opening one (1) "government supermarket." It will cost 30 fucking million dollars and won't open until... 2029.

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Per foot, that's 10x the price of a Whole Foods.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:19 PM (B5oTI)

Yes, but he explained, that's because "unlike other grocery stores, it will be built from the ground up." (!!??). I wonder how he thinks other grocery stores come into being.....

Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (AEg6O)

31
Mamdani and Duwaji's relatively low income is partly due to the first lady's measly contribution - only $10,010 before taxes and expenses from her visual design business last year, according to their tax return.

__________

Lower class: wife doesn't work.

Middle class: wife works.

Upper class: wife owns a business that loses $10,000 a month.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (tgvbd)

32 We demand cashews. Pecans as a minimum.

Posted by: The crows in ace's yard at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (A+zd0)

33 The "government supermarket" is THE perfect example of what is wrong with leftist policies.

From start to its inevitable finish, it sounds good to retards, outrageously expensive, bloated with bureaucrats, it's unnecessary, inefficient, ridiculous, embarrassing, shit show.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (aZm/F)

34 I hope this is a good sign: We are getting swamped with "Vote No" flyers in the redistricting referendum in Virginia. Seems like there's one in the mailbox almost every day, though it's always the same flier.

Looks like the VA GOP is taking this very seriously. Good.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

35 Who really cares about NYC, Shitcargo and San Fran? They just suck all the time.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (FmapG)

36 Hochul is already begging people to come back from Florida. How long. Fore she goes full Madonna?

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (zQLjY)

37
Super rich guys who don't actually live in NYC will just immediately sell that shit. This is retarded.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (BI5O2)

38 Turnout in the mayoral election was 43%. If more than half of New Yorkers couldn't bother to vote, my sympathy meter is pegged at zero.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (2UnvF)

39 29 It’s funny that these arguments assume that rich people buy property in NYC because it’s affordable, and not because it’s the most culturally dense world class city in America

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (JCZqz)

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"Dallas doesn't even have a theater!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:27 PM (B5oTI)

40
Turnout in the mayoral election was 43%.

__________

Usually it's half that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:27 PM (tgvbd)

41 Wouldn't doubt lots of UN ambassadors have private apartments in NY

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

42 Say what you will about Trump, but at least he's done a few things that idiot Mandami never has: worked and created something. Oh, and married a beautiful woman...a few times.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 17, 2026 03:27 PM (aZm/F)

43 Amelia Bedelia >>>>>>> Commie Mamdani
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:24 PM (LxER7)

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle > Amelia Bedelia >>>>> Commie Mamdani.

Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (AEg6O)

44 34 I hope this is a good sign: We are getting swamped with "Vote No" flyers in the redistricting referendum in Virginia. Seems like there's one in the mailbox almost every day, though it's always the same flier.

Looks like the VA GOP is taking this very seriously. Good.
Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

I've seen a lot of "no" ads on the teevee, too. There's one of an AI-generated Spamburger burning down a barn and laughing about it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (LxER7)

45 >> Dallas doesn't even have a theater!"

Yeah but they have a book depository.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (zQLjY)

46

The reason I care is the Muzzies are planning to take over every city no matter the size.

They have a plan and since we have so many fucking dumbasses in our country it won't take long for the Muzzies to take over.

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

47
"Dallas doesn't even have a theater!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:27 PM (B5oTI)

___________

Hey, I got arrested in a Dallas theater!

Posted by: Zombie Lee Harvey Oswald at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (tgvbd)

48 Yes, but he explained, that's because "unlike other grocery stores, it will be built from the ground up."
Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (AEg6O
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Well, Sue, you see... sometimes when a farm and a warehouse love each other very much...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)

49 Does he have a bet with the Chicago & Seattle mayors to see who can destroy their city first?

Posted by: Dave at April 17, 2026 03:29 PM (sbsMc)

50 "Culturally Dense"

Please, they're there to be close to Wall St. and to News Media.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:29 PM (FpHTM)

51 40
Turnout in the mayoral election was 43%.

__________

Usually it's half that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:27 PM (tgvbd)

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In 2021, Adams won with 67% of the vote and 23% turnout.

In 2025, Mamdani won with 51% of the vote and 43% turnout.

I strongly suspect his popularity isn't going to increase with his four years in office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:29 PM (B5oTI)

52 So "moderate Democrat" is the new code for "deranged c***"?

Good to know, good to know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2026 03:29 PM (utfVc)

53 Like rhodan and mothra

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 17, 2026 03:30 PM (bXbFr)

54 Or as I prefer to call her now, Jadis, the White Witch of Richmond.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:30 PM (LxER7)

55 If only 43% of the people who live there give a shit, I’m hard pressed to figure out why I should. That city is dying and I think the muslim is doing it on purpose.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:30 PM (zQLjY)

56 So how does this pied-a-terre tax affect corporations that own property? Corporations may be legal persons, but they don't actually have a "primary residence".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 17, 2026 03:31 PM (O7YUW)

57 Maybe the island of Manhattan will tip over?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 03:31 PM (FmapG)

58 This is going to be fantastic. The vast majority of owned Luxury residences in Manahattan have never even seen an occupant. They are an investment to hide money by foreigners. The number of Eastern Europeans and Arabs who use these residences for this is very high. Russian, Ukrainian, Saudi Arabian, Oman, UAE...even China.

Mamdani is about to spit in the eye of international organized crime. He'll be getting a few phone calls, and mayber a horse head in his crib.

Posted by: Orson at April 17, 2026 03:31 PM (dIske)

59 Get this. In the middle of the Triborough Bridge, and this woman is beautiful, she changes her pantyhose. Oh, yeah! I throw the meter, you know, and I jump in the backseat and I whip it out and I said, "You know what this is?" She says, "It's love!" You know, I fuck her brains out. She goes wild, you know. She said, "It's the greatest single experience of my life." And she gave me a $200 tip and her phone number in Acapulco.

Posted by: Wizard at April 17, 2026 03:31 PM (onPc6)

60 There was a small story out of 2024 that Republicans were having a real messaging problem.

They were accurately describing, and even directly quoting, Democrats for what they believed.

And voters didn't believe that Democrats would say those things.

The GOP ads weren't inventing things. They were directly quoting Democrats. And the voters simply refused to believe them because it was just too out there.

To bring this to another little thing I harp on: CBS under Bari Weiss (and potentially CNN) giving attention to this sort of stuff instead of ignoring it like ABC and NBC will is going to have some serious repercussions over time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:32 PM (B5oTI)

61 The Crow

Pain is getting nearer. Think Karachi on mind-altering drugs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2026 03:32 PM (u82oZ)

62 Nothing worse than whiney rich people

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But enough about Springsteen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 03:32 PM (ndZc7)

63 The revenue isn't the point. It's "eat the rich" - purely punitive to BE punitive. That's the entire bit. No one's life will be improved. Not one extra dollar will actually flow into the city coffers (if anything, they'll probably take a hit as these peole simply leave).

But they "hurt the rich people". And that's what counts.

Envy is worse than greed.

Posted by: can of spam at April 17, 2026 03:33 PM (14gFN)

64 57 Maybe the island of Manhattan will tip over?

"It's gonna be underwater real soon. REAL SOON. No... we REALLY mean it this time!" -Climate Scientists

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 17, 2026 03:33 PM (DgMqy)

65 She's about as "moderate" a Democrat as Charles Manson.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 17, 2026 03:33 PM (oZAW3)

66 Article at American Thinker on South Africa will become the fore bearing of NY someday.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)

67 Why not calculate where the local PCI is, arrest everyone in NYC who makes as much of a penny above that, and kill them?

Then, seize their assets, and evenly redistribute them among those left?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (E6xSb)

68 Gooder and harder NY

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (YwEeS)

69 The bell curve has really moved if Hochul is now the moderate wing.

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (OoFl2)

70 We need to start a task force to investigate and report all these Democrats who are claiming residence in Florida to avoid paying state taxes, while still living in Illinois and New York.

Posted by: MikeN at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (LNbc/)

71
First of all, talking about "n*****s and homos" when you're 15 is not just youthful silliness. I'm gonna say 15-year-olds know better, especially considering:

Second, Mrs. Mamdani is 28 years old. That means she was 15 a scant 13 years ago -- has she dramatically changed to the point that she doesn't look down on "n-----s and homos" anymore?

Third, 13 years ago was 2011. America's 15-year-olds were wide awake and aware of the nastiness of those words then.

“Being 15 doesn’t excuse it," she accurately said. So... what's next? She has a much bigger confession to make about who and what she truly is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (n7rxJ)

72 It’s funny that these arguments assume that rich people buy property in NYC because it’s affordable, and not because it’s the most culturally dense world class city in America

>>> I guarantee you this person has used the "But my Thai food at 3 a.m.!" argument.

Posted by: pookysgirl likes her cold and blustery Iowa at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (Wt5PA)

73 BTW, you all been seeing the clips from Allie Beth Stuckey's interview with David French? She politiely tears him to shreds.

I'd think French might regret agreeing to do this interview, except getting publically humilated by a woman probably is the best thing that's ever happened to him.

Posted by: can of spam at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (14gFN)

74

My simple thought is "why the hell are people so *ucking stupid."

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:35 PM (3ek7K)

75 50 "Culturally Dense"

Please, they're there to be close to Wall St. and to News Media.
Posted by: XTC

But Broadway! And Thai delivery at 3am!!!

Posted by: Gay Leftist NYC retarded youth at April 17, 2026 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

76 "If you can afford a $5 million second home that sits empty most of the year, you can afford to contribute like every other New Yorker," Hochul said in a statement. Non-resident owners do not pay New York City's income taxes.
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I admit to mixed emotions about this. We have lots of out-of-staters with multimillion dollar houses here, only occupied for weeks out of the year. They are happy to take advantage of our countryside, but contribute nothing to the general capital and well-being of the residents.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 03:35 PM (XeU6L)

77 Hochul, a moderate Democrat

USA Today, always with the funny jokes.

Posted by: far cry at April 17, 2026 03:35 PM (wBRco)

78 Izzat so? I don't mind foreigners being despoiled.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:23 PM (tgvbd)

Seems to me it would be very easy to avoid the pied-a-terre tax. Sell your property to a corporation, a sole proprietorship that you own, and charge yourself rent.

"landlord" says: "he's paying rent. How often he's in occupancy is none of my business"

"tenant" says: "Hey, I'm paying rent to a NY-domiciled corporation."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2026 03:35 PM (utfVc)

79
The revenue isn't the point. It's "eat the rich" - purely punitive to BE punitive.

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They don't care about helping the poor. They'd be just as happy piling up all that money and setting it on fire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (tgvbd)

80 NYT is running a story about how horrible the Texas Rangers baseball team is because they replaced the Texas Ranger statue at the main entrance. Last week all of the Hearst newspapers now in Texas ran a similar screed that included the Rangers had 'no people of color' on the opening day roster.

Dem megaphones are running out of juice.

Posted by: DanMan at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (8uzBS)

81 27 Meh. 1,500 miles away from me.

The Leftist town of Manhattan, Kansas benefited because we (me and my peeps) helped elect a conservative majority on the City Council for 7 years and as County Commissioners for 5 years.

The Left struck back, but this last election we are righting the ship again.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (u82oZ)

Gotta love college towns.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (E6xSb)

82 his hip-hop alias, 'Mr Cardamom.

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Mr. Cardamom? This is really funny, actually.

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (OoFl2)

83 Hochul is an idiot. I’ve seen smarter buckets of paint. She’s just the from for Democrats election fraud machine. The people in NY haven’t figured out that when you hand one party complete control over the state eventually you become an expendable dupe. So put on those Gimp Suits, New Yorkers.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (zQLjY)

84 I'm wondering how long before they find mandami floating around the NY harbor in a plastic bag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (snZF9)

85 First of all, talking about "n*****s and homos" when you're 15 is not just youthful silliness. I'm gonna say 15-year-olds know better, especially considering:

Wasn't there a media blow up a few years ago because there was a tiff between an 18 year old girl and one of her classmates, and the guy that didn't like her posted a video of her using the n-word from 4 years before and the FNM agreed that the girl should be cancelled for it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

86 Oh, and Mamdani will be opening one (1) "government supermarket." It will cost 30 fucking million dollars and won't open until... 2029.
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He's only off by about three zeros...It'll be cheaper to build high-speed rail out to the grocery stores in the suburbs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (gnNyN)

87 >>> Death Cult Whore wife has previously celebrated terrorism and especially the October 7 massacre...

Anyone who supports the rape and/or murder of children as some sort of religious tenet is worse any secular pedo and should be put to the chippers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (/lPRQ)

88 I'd think French might regret agreeing to do this interview, except getting publically humilated by a woman probably is the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Posted by: can of spam at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: The French Bulls at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (0sNs1)

89
Yes, but he explained, that's because "unlike other grocery stores, it will be built from the ground up." (!!??). I wonder how he thinks other grocery stores come into being.....
Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2026 03:25 PM (AEg6O)
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Miranda Devine pointed out there are many existing grocery stores in NYC for sale right now and even had some of the listings as examples. So, as she said, why not buy a grocery store that already exists for a fraction of the cost? (like under 500K)

Posted by: beckster at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (kX27y)

90 71
First of all, talking about "n*****s and homos" when you're 15 is not just youthful silliness. I'm gonna say 15-year-olds know better, especially considering:

Second, Mrs. Mamdani is 28 years old. That means she was 15 a scant 13 years ago -- has she dramatically changed to the point that she doesn't look down on "n-----s and homos" anymore?

Third, 13 years ago was 2011. America's 15-year-olds were wide awake and aware of the nastiness of those words then.

“Being 15 doesn’t excuse it," she accurately said. So... what's next? She has a much bigger confession to make about who and what she truly is.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (n7rxJ)

I think she'd more have to explain to the Left why she's talking like a Groyper, lol.

That kind of talk would get "Based" from lot of people.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (iXqHn)

91 The reason I care is the Muzzies are planning to take over every city no matter the size.
They have a plan and since we have so many fucking dumbasses in our country it won't take long for the Muzzies to take over.
Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

Agreed. The muslims are disciplined and aggressive and will soon control more major cities and then a few states and before long our society will change to what you see now in Europastan. But to oppose them or ban them from entry is "racist" and "hateful". Hopefully I get a swinging Imam who likes to drink on the sly.

Posted by: Joe Mosque at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (onPc6)

92 Hochul The Moderate:

"New York is now going head-to-head with a group of Dominican nuns over a law challenged as unconstitutional. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state are being sued over a law that forces religious organizations to adhere to LGBTQ policies."

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (DgMqy)

93 The water that hits you when it rains and then the city has to clean in its water treatment plants?

Come on, Mamdani, there's so many more ways to tax! Get going!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror

Here in Washington state, if you collect rain water (there's a lot of it) you will be taxed for it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (2WIwB)

94 Cardamom is good stuff. Great in Indian food.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

95 86 Oh, and Mamdani will be opening one (1) "government supermarket." It will cost 30 fucking million dollars and won't open until... 2029.
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He's only off by about three zeros...It'll be cheaper to build high-speed rail out to the grocery stores in the suburbs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (gnNyN)

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"We were going to break ground 2 years ago, but a new environment study was ordered by the mayor's office. We had to spend $19 million on one vendor the mayor insisted we use that his wife is on the board of."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (B5oTI)

96 >> "If you can afford a $5 million second home that sits empty most of the year, you can afford to contribute like every other New Yorker," Hochul said in a statement

The people who own these properties have to be chortling their asses off. I just spit a bunch of cashews when I read that.

Yeah, they’ve got nowhere else to go. He Miami is calling, pick up the phone.

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:39 PM (zQLjY)

97 I'd think French might regret agreeing to do this interview, except getting publically humilated by a woman probably is the best thing that's ever happened to him.

For the record, many people would consider my wife making me watch as her bull services her a type of humiliation, but as a more serious Christian then you I see it as an opportunity to show my Christ like nature and wash his feet, and uh, other parts, for him afterwards

Posted by: David French at April 17, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

98 50 "Culturally Dense"

Please, they're there to be close to Wall St. and to News Media.
Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:29 PM (FpHTM)

Culturaly dense? Like mamdanis wife?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 03:39 PM (i0Hi3)

99

Babylon Bee says,

Do not fear mass Islamic migration says the Pope behind 40 foot walls from Vatican fortress.

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:39 PM (3ek7K)

100 80 NYT is running a story about how horrible the Texas Rangers baseball team is because they replaced the Texas Ranger statue at the main entrance. Last week all of the Hearst newspapers now in Texas ran a similar screed that included the Rangers had 'no people of color' on the opening day roster.

Dem megaphones are running out of juice.
Posted by: DanMan at April 17, 2026 03:36 PM (8uzBS)

Black Americans really don't play Baseball anymore, and the Rangers aren't a team that Japanese players want to sign with, so what are these people expecting?

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:39 PM (iXqHn)

101 "The future is warmed over 100 year old communist pablum mixed with racial animus."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:39 PM (B5oTI)

102 It’s funny that these arguments assume that rich people buy property in NYC because it’s affordable, and not because it’s the most culturally dense world class city in America

Also assumes that when they leave, these properties will be vacant for years to come. As if there is a shortage of people trying to move to NYC

These are the stupidest things I have read all day. "Dense" is correct, and the "culture" is mostly what is growing on the puke in the streets.

Who in their right mind wants to move into a city bereft of decency while being full of crime and filth?

Plus the noise, incessant noise.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 17, 2026 03:40 PM (DwqWV)

103 If you can afford a $5 million second home that sits empty most of the year, you can afford to contribute like every other New Yorker," Hochul said in a statement

People with part time homes are paying the same taxes as people that live their full time, but only using a fraction of the services.

Actually, wait, don't they already pay more in taxes since it isn't a primary home?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

104
Mamdani is about to spit in the eye of international organized crime. He'll be getting a few phone calls, and mayber a horse head in his crib.
Posted by: Orson

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Don't you think those people will just grumble and pay up, though?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:41 PM (n7rxJ)

105 Anyone who can afford a multi-million dollar second home/apartment can also say "FU" and walk away... or better yet find a way to subdivide it into multiple rent subsidized apartments and pay you to let the poors live there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:41 PM (/lPRQ)

106 bereft of decency while being full of crime and filth
_-_
...other than that, it's great!!!
To quote a goof friend of mine, "Town sucks."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 17, 2026 03:41 PM (iP/HW)

107 91 Agreed. The muslims are disciplined and aggressive and will soon control more major cities and then a few states and before long our society will change to what you see now in Europastan. But to oppose them or ban them from entry is "racist" and "hateful". Hopefully I get a swinging Imam who likes to drink on the sly.
Posted by: Joe Mosque at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (onPc6)

It will be worse than Al-Euro, because the headchoppers will start headchopping here long before they do in Europe. They will be in positions to legally headchop quicker here.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:41 PM (iXqHn)

108
Culturally dense? The Metropolitan Opera is going broke. The New York Philharmonic has been a joke since Toscanini retired. Broadway? You jest.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (tgvbd)

109 I just see a lot of people moving their property to a trust of some kind, with some niece/nephew/grandkid/employee as the primary resident. anyone with low income would do.

This tax will be avoided like an insurance salesman at a cocktail party.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (nEzI3)

110 goof friend of mine
^^^^
good friend, that is...apparently I'm the goof.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (iP/HW)

111 105 Don't you think those people will just grumble and pay up, though?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:41 PM (n7rxJ)

Only if they don't want to be seen as opposing a Muslim.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (iXqHn)

112 call it the tax accountant full employment act.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (nEzI3)

113 The people of NYC will never know they are being screwed because the MSM controlled by the Democrat machine will tell them that everything is glorious, no matter how bad it gets.

The daily brainwashing will succeed and people will continue to vote for more people like Mamdani.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (NpAcC)

114 The people voted for this. Reap what you sow.

Posted by: Case at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (pvf3X)

115 110 I just see a lot of people moving their property to a trust of some kind, with some niece/nephew/grandkid/employee as the primary resident. anyone with low income would do.

This tax will be avoided like an insurance salesman at a cocktail party.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:42 PM (nEzI3)

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"What do you mean we collected less tax revenue than expected?! That's never happened to a new tax before!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (B5oTI)

116 Benefits of living in Podunk, middle of nowhere:

No crime, no noise, low taxes, can just...walk right into nature, little traffic, lower cost of living, can do what you want on your property

Benefits of living in NYC:

Can get good Thai food at 3 AM, can get mugged, can smell piss every time you leave your home, cramped, hard to get into nature, can only modify your property if you can hide it from the government

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

117 "Government must do more because it does it so well and so efficiently"

Speaking of which, the idiots are at it here in the Omaha area about the Walmart stabber ace referenced yesterday. "This is why we need affordable mental health care," and " This is why we need socialized medicine."
You effing dolts! She was getting "socialized medicine." Her mental health treatments were court ordered and court funded. And obviously real effective, like all government services.

Posted by: Wally at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (0e5Te)

118 If you won a home on NY you’ve probably done that for a reason and that’s often tax purposes. Sometimes it’s because as a billionaire you want your own place to crash to. The bet by NYC is people will just pay. Because they can. lol

Posted by: The Crow at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (zQLjY)

119 Who in their right mind wants to move into a city bereft of decency while being full of crime and filth?

Filth-wise, it could be worse. We haven't arrived, yet.

Posted by: Penguins of the World at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)

120

18-1,

coming soon to every city.

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (3ek7K)

121 Just what is the logic behind "free grocery stores"? Why not give the "needy" debit cards that can only be redeemed for healthy foods? Call it SNAP or something clever. Then people could go to already functional grocery stores.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (vbXSk)

122 Yoj could go find a closed grocery store. Renovated it up to at least code and won't even be close to $30M

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (Ia/+0)

123 Trump pretending to be friends with Mamdani is the funniest troll ever. We are so going to miss this guy.

Posted by: Max Power at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (q177U)

124 Cities have strategies around local income tax. It's very difficult to get an income tax started because the income tax is believed to be extremely unpopular. But local politicos figured out pretty quickly that that is not necessarily true - the trick is to divided the locals into two groups, A and B, where the number of people in A might be only 40% of the total population. Only the people in A will be required to pay the new tax. The folks in group B receive a stream of information about all the wonderful things they are going to get with the income tax revenue and, OH!, they aren't going to have to pay the tax! But don't worry, Group A, they will be coming for Group B soon.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (2ap+5)

125 104 If you can afford a $5 million second home that sits empty most of the year, you can afford to contribute like every other New Yorker," Hochul said in a statement

People with part time homes are paying the same taxes as people that live their full time, but only using a fraction of the services.

Actually, wait, don't they already pay more in taxes since it isn't a primary home?
Posted by: 18-1

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Do you think they got that $5 million second home by paying stupid taxes?

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (nEzI3)

126 Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 17, 2026 03:38 PM (DgMqy)

Thanks. It's a reminder for me to keep those nuns in prayer. That is outrageous that nuns caring for indigent hospice patients who have nobody to look after them must be forced to play pretend gender games and their patients must as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (lQ+/f)

127 Black Americans really don't play Baseball anymore
Posted by: XTC
_________

That's true. It's down to 6% in MLB, compared to a peak of 18% in the 70s.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (XvL8K)

128 The people voted for this. Reap what you sow.

I saw a number of interviews with Mamdami voters. The general sentiment was "Whitey* has too much money and its time to make them share with me"

*Yes that includes Jewish people, and yes secular Jewish people, all those NYC immigrants and their kids do not see you as an oppressed minority

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

129 He's only off by about three zeros...It'll be cheaper to build high-speed rail out to the grocery stores in the suburbs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Free bussing from the hood to suburban shopping malls is what killed the malls, not Amazon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (/lPRQ)

130 Miranda Devine pointed out there are many existing grocery stores in NYC for sale right now and even had some of the listings as examples. So, as she said, why not buy a grocery store that already exists for a fraction of the cost? (like under 500K)
Posted by: beckster at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (kX27y)

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Oh, for Heaven's sake, I ignored my own policy. Of course, this will be money laundering. Obviously.

Always, always, always, follow the money.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (aZm/F)

131 My guess is that $30M most will be grift and pocketed by Marxists bureaucracy

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)

132 Will the café feature Crows today? Polymarket has it by 77% and rising.

Posted by: Max Power at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (q177U)

133 121 Just what is the logic behind "free grocery stores"? Why not give the "needy" debit cards that can only be redeemed for healthy foods? Call it SNAP or something clever. Then people could go to already functional grocery stores.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2026 03:43 PM (vbXSk)

There's more grifting opportunity in running a government "business".

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (okun6)

134 This proposal is to laugh. It will generate little actual income, and they must know it. This is more about having some "tax the rich" vomit to crow about than a serious proposal.

There are almost 4 million apartments and homes in NYC. The number of non-resident apartments/homes in NYC that nobody lives in that are valued at more than $5M?

The supporters of this bill claim there are 13k. I doubt the number is anywhere near high, but let's assume it is. Then we are talking about this proposal affecting .325% of the housing in NYC.

This is before the ultra-rich who own $5M+ homes in NYC that leave them empty the entire year sic their lawyers and accountants on calculating the value of the apartment and disputing that the tax applies to it.

The number of apartments that are valued at $4.9M will increase 10x if this tax gets passed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

135
Do you think they got that $5 million second home by paying stupid taxes?
Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (nEzI3)

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My thought exactly.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (aZm/F)

136 So mamdani is going to create a situation where all absentee owners sell and drive down the values of these places. Who's going to buy them?

I am no economist, but if the taxes applied to these places is high enough there will be huge unforseen negative consequences.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (i0Hi3)

137 What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

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A whaaaat?

FREE STUFF!!!

Posted by: Clueless New Yorker at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (Cjger)

138 Mamdani is about to spit in the eye of international organized crime. He'll be getting a few phone calls, and mayber a horse head in his crib.
Posted by: Orson

Why? An overbearing socialist government does nothing but create a thriving black market.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (JCZqz)

139
It'll be cheaper to build high-speed rail out to the grocery stores in the suburbs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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Another stat I read was that it would be cheaper to buy (literally) one million Costco memberships for NYC residents. And yes, there's a Costco in NYC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (n7rxJ)

140 Will the café feature Crows today? Polymarket has it by 77% and rising.
Posted by: Max Power

Should be bats, as it's Worldwide Bat Appreciation Day.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

141
Government grocery store: beets, government cheese, sardines.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:46 PM (tgvbd)

142 The tax, which would need to be passed in the state's delayed budget, would generate some $500 million in revenue annually, according to Hochul's office.

I think you can file this prediction under "Delusional Optimism".

Posted by: far cry at April 17, 2026 03:47 PM (wBRco)

143 Just what is the logic behind "free grocery stores"? Why not give the "needy" debit cards that can only be redeemed for healthy foods? Call it SNAP or something clever. Then people could go to already functional grocery stores.

The leftwing arguments on this are kind of stupid:

1) Grocery store chains are evil price gouging bastards
2) They blew wasteful money on advertising so they can't complete with a government entity that doesn't advertise

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

144 What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

Posted by: four seasons
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They thought he was just gay?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:47 PM (/lPRQ)

145 Will the café feature Crows today? Polymarket has it by 77% and rising.
Posted by: Max Power at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM

We're hoping for a 60% appearance rate for the week.

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 17, 2026 03:47 PM (0sNs1)

146 Two things I'm finding difficult to give a shit about;
- NYC mayor
- NYC residents

One's gonna' launder the fuck out of all the money taken in and the other's gonna' provide the money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2026 03:48 PM (AkEZC)

147 " Hochul, a moderate Democrat up for re-election in November, . ."

WTF?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2026 03:48 PM (dBJdm)

148 Leftists and Marxists are going hand in hand to destroy western civilization, then they will be at each other throats

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

149
Grocery store chains are evil price gouging bastards

____________

Profit margin for groceries is thinner than a slice of prison baloney.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:48 PM (tgvbd)

150 Ahem, I the term for the NY Gov is "High Priestess Hochul" for her love of killing babies to Gaia...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

151 Thanks. It's a reminder for me to keep those nuns in prayer. That is outrageous that nuns caring for indigent hospice patients who have nobody to look after them must be forced to play pretend gender games and their patients must as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 03:44 PM (lQ+/f)

YW. I always need prayer reminders, too.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (DgMqy)

152 So mamdani is going to create a situation where all absentee owners sell and drive down the values of these places. Who's going to buy them?

I am no economist, but if the taxes applied to these places is high enough there will be huge unforseen negative consequences.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

I've already seen there are a bunch of exceptions and loopholes. If someone is renting or occupying the place, it's exempt. There are all the weird options to put things in trusts so they aren't normal residences. Etc.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (JCZqz)

153 What a creepy POS. Ken Griffin should buy his own TV ad to counter this one and really put it to him and every one else that thinks this will actually be a good thing for NYC.

Also, how about proposed exit taxes? Are there any states where this is law now?

Posted by: Cheri at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (oiNtH)

154 130 Miranda Devine pointed out there are many existing grocery stores in NYC for sale right now and even had some of the listings as examples. So, as she said, why not buy a grocery store that already exists for a fraction of the cost? (like under 500K)
Posted by: beckster at April 17, 2026 03:37 PM (kX27y)

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Oh, for Heaven's sake, I ignored my own policy. Of course, this will be money laundering. Obviously.

Always, always, always, follow the money.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 17, 2026 03:45 PM (aZm/F)

The Mohammed bros construction company will no doubt be hired to build a halal grocery store with built in prayer rooms.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (i0Hi3)

155 thinner than a slice of prison baloney.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's a new one to me. Gonna have to file that one away in the memory bank for future use.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)

156
I am no economist, but if the taxes applied to these places is high enough there will be huge unforseen negative consequences.

___________

Leftists never see consequences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (tgvbd)

157 Ken Griffen, the target of Madmani's celebratory video, is building the tallest office tower in midtown and is going to staff it with thousands of high income people. He personally is creating more tax money for the city of New York (and the state) than Madmani will create in ten lifetimes. And he is the guy Madmani makes into the Bad Man, and sends out a video including his fucking address.

Griffen should sell the office tower, sell his apartment (which he obviously can't use now anyway, given all the Luigi's on the violent left), and just move those people who won't go to Florida to Dallas or London or wherever else Citadel has an office.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (6mv2K)

158
I admit to mixed emotions about this. We have lots of out-of-staters with multimillion dollar houses here, only occupied for weeks out of the year. They are happy to take advantage of our countryside, but contribute nothing to the general capital and well-being of the residents.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

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What? Who says a property owner is obligated to hang around and "contribute" to you guys?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

159
Israel is suspending it's nuclear program.

Posted by: Auspex at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL)

160 Island of Hawaii already has an additional tax on second homes it deems "millionaire" homes.

Posted by: kathysaysso at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (7OVtU)

161 Sorry if this is a dumb question: How will the tax assessors determine if a rich person has a primary home in another country?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (fxCK2)

162 So mamdani is going to create a situation where all absentee owners sell and drive down the values of these places. Who's going to buy them?

I am no economist, but if the taxes applied to these places is high enough there will be huge unforseen negative consequences.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

I've already seen there are a bunch of exceptions and loopholes. If someone is renting or occupying the place, it's exempt. There are all the weird options to put things in trusts so they aren't normal residences. Etc.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (JCZqz)
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Yea, see my comment above. If you are so rich to be able to afford a vacation home that would technically quality for this tax, you will have armies of lawyers and accountants to find a way around it. This is grandstanding.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 17, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

163 So, I assume if you are NY Rich guy you could get around this pretty easily...

Take your nanny/maid/sex slave and tell her she now has to rent from you.

Pay her some nominal amount she can then pay you as rent.

Claim your penthouse apt isn't unoccupied, its Maria's permanent residence.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

164 Israel is suspending its nuclear program.
Posted by: Auspex

What does it mean by that?

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

165 The real estate people are gonna love that nonresident tax. That $5 million apartment isn't worth $5M anymore.
By the time this JO gets kicked out, he will have knocked a couple if hundred million off the high-end real.estate market.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 17, 2026 03:51 PM (i3DU8)

166

In 2003 we moved from a town in Illinois to another town in Illinois and had to pay an exit tax to move to our new location.

Assholes.

Posted by: four seasons at April 17, 2026 03:51 PM (3ek7K)

167 Trump's new makeup person is foo fooing him up.
Enough already.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 17, 2026 03:52 PM (P+D9B)

168 142 The tax, which would need to be passed in the state's delayed budget, would generate some $500 million in revenue annually, according to Hochul's office.

I think you can file this prediction under "Delusional Optimism".
Posted by: far cry at April 17, 2026 03:47 PM (wBRco)

So 500M divided by 13k units is a $38,500 per unit tax.

Nice plan.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 03:52 PM (i0Hi3)

169
What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

Posted by: four seasons

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They miss Obama.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:53 PM (n7rxJ)

170 wee-wee'd up >> foo-foo'd up

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 03:53 PM (77rzZ)

171 What? Who says a property owner is obligated to hang around and "contribute" to you guys?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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seriously. Seems a real bonus to have wealthy people who are never around, don't vote, don't send their kids to the school, and only keep up a nice place for occasional use. In fact, my dream city has no actual people in it.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:53 PM (nEzI3)

172 What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

He's so....MANLY and... DREAMY

Posted by: Some Karen wearing a handmaid robe flicking her bean at April 17, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

173 Also, how about proposed exit taxes? Are there any states where this is law now?
Posted by: Cheri at April 17, 2026 03:49 PM (oiNtH

NJ. If you sell your house less than 2 years after you bought it and do not buy another house in NJ, you get an extra tax. We closed on our house at 2 years and 1 day in our escape from The Great Northern Experiment.

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2026 03:54 PM (Wmg4n)

174 In other news, I have become addicted to Reeses Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jam cups.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2026 03:55 PM (XV/Pl)

175 158
I admit to mixed emotions about this. We have lots of out-of-staters with multimillion dollar houses here, only occupied for weeks out of the year. They are happy to take advantage of our countryside, but contribute nothing to the general capital and well-being of the residents.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

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What? Who says a property owner is obligated to hang around and "contribute" to you guys?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

Aren't most towns funded by a property tax any way?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 03:55 PM (i0Hi3)

176 "Hochul, a moderate Democrat..."

OMG, are they fucking insane ? The last thing ANY Democrat in New York could be is "mOdErAte"

Give me a fucking break. Who the hell do these idiots think they're fooling ???

Posted by: deadrody at April 17, 2026 03:55 PM (OeYsY)

177
I've already seen there are a bunch of exceptions and loopholes. If someone is renting or occupying the place, it's exempt. There are all the weird options to put things in trusts so they aren't normal residences. Etc.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

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lol there ya go. Mamdani will bray about his attack on the rich while they hire lawyers to scoot right around his backside.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:56 PM (n7rxJ)

178 Ken Griffin will just lie back and take it, right?? RIGHT???? Because, after all, what can he do about it!??

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 03:57 PM (pDt9x)

179
I'm tired of hearing "Culture pop" all natural soda commercials.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 17, 2026 03:57 PM (IifOV)

180 176 "Hochul, a moderate Democrat..."

OMG, are they fucking insane ? The last thing ANY Democrat in New York could be is "mOdErAte"

Give me a fucking break. Who the hell do these idiots think they're fooling ???

Posted by: deadrody at April 17, 2026 03:55 PM (OeYsY)

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Proposal:

When referring to a politician with a modifier such as "moderate", it is required that the writer give examples of the issues on which the politician meets that definition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:57 PM (B5oTI)

181 Property tax is a pretty terrible tax to begin with.

The value you are taxed on is independent of what you paid for the place and the government can then just take your home if you can't/won't pay the protection money to them.

In my area house prices are still way up, so taxes are up even though the rate has not changed. The argument is theoretically my home is worth more, but it isn't if I don't sell it and I bought it to live in, not primarily as an investment...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

182 172 What the hell are people thinking when they vote for a Muzzie?

He's so....MANLY and... DREAMY
Posted by: Some Karen wearing a handmaid robe flicking her bean at April 17, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

Pick me, Commander. Pick me!

Posted by: Handmaidens everywhere at April 17, 2026 03:57 PM (i0Hi3)

183 Yes, but he explained, that's because "unlike other grocery stores, it will be built from the ground up." (!!??).

I'm sure it will make a lovely Dollar General a year after opening.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 17, 2026 03:57 PM (vTZFs)

184 @FirstSquawk
FIVE IRAN TANKERS HEADED TO MALAYSIA TURN AROUND TO AVOID US NAVY - WSJ

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Iran controls the strait and America has suffered the greatest defeat in its history!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (B5oTI)

185 I see the GOPe passed a two week extension of the FISA bill at 2 AM in the morning. Nice job, how's that Voter ID thing coming along?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (n5tGW)

186 >>> I guarantee you this person has used the "But my Thai food at 3 a.m.!" argument.
Posted by: pookysgirl likes her cold and blustery Iowa

It's called "Waffle House" and they are in every city down south.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (/lPRQ)

187
Aren't most towns funded by a property tax any way?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

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That's my impression. I don't consider it the civic duty of the people in my little town to eat out and shop at the local boutiques.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

188 What? Who says a property owner is obligated to hang around and "contribute" to you guys?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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seriously. Seems a real bonus to have wealthy people who are never around, don't vote, don't send their kids to the school, and only keep up a nice place for occasional use. In fact, my dream city has no actual people in it.
Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 03:53 PM

That was my childhood neighborhood: a half mile of summer houses and cottages that were empty all winter and most of the spring and autumn. We fished and sled everywhere with no competition. In the summer, we had other kids to play with (if they were nice kids; a couple urban assholes weren't invited anywhere).

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (fxCK2)

189 Could not happen to more deserving people.

There's a reason y'all don't hold MoMee's in New Jersey.

Posted by: Yep at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (r2cqy)

190 Horde, what is the most Onerous Tax? The Estate Tax, IMO.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 03:59 PM (pDt9x)

191 From the article:

"To avoid taxation, property owners could make the home their primary residence or rent it out someone else who does so."

If the property owner made the home their primary residence, why wouldn't they have to pay the state income tax? How would that work? Isn't that why they live 6 months and 1 day in Florida or wherever?

Posted by: bluebell at April 17, 2026 03:59 PM (afFes)

192
Ken Griffin will just lie back and take it, right?? RIGHT???? Because, after all, what can he do about it!??
Posted by: tubal

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I bet he'll pay up, same as the ever-gracious Bill Ackman.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (n7rxJ)

193 I think what happens is these poor SNAPites look at the doorman buildings on Park, and think, "gosh, if those wealthy people were not there, I would be living there."

They blame the housing shortage on the wealthy. They don't blame rent control, over regulation, and grifting government.

This is just kulak bashing in a different form.

Fuck this muzzie asshole with a wooken spike up his ass the way Vlad taught us.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (nEzI3)

194 I admit to mixed emotions about this. We have lots of out-of-staters with multimillion dollar houses here, only occupied for weeks out of the year. They are happy to take advantage of our countryside, but contribute nothing to the general capital and well-being of the residents.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Well, they don't cause much wear and tear on the roads, and their brats aren't clogging the schools, and they make zero or minimal use of other public facilities. They still benefit from county fire protection, but maintained vacant homes are likely not a huge fire risk. And when they do show up, they spend in bars, restaurants, and retail stores.

So there's an upside to it, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (utfVc)

195 There's a reason y'all don't hold MoMee's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Yep

CBD would have us all at his mercy.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (77rzZ)

196 A for-profit business has to make money to stay solvent.

Gubmint stores, like all gubmint functions, don't have that restriction.

They will tax the shit out of the "wealthy" until there are none and and all the jobs will disappear.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (qFwJc)

197 @comment 30. There is a chain of grocery stores in L.A. called Jons. They went around and bought defunct Vons grocery storezs and changed the V on the sign to a J. So, there's that.

Posted by: Croaker at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (grm9A)

198 Basically all new deals over $5 million will drop in price equal to the amount of about 10 years of the new tax, which means a net to the city is zero or less.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

199 The government grocery store thing is somewhat popular because of the explosion in food costs under Biden. Yes Trump stopped Bidenflation but that doesn't roll costs back to before Biden...

I went to *Walmart* of all places to do my grocery shopping recently because I needed something else from them and figured I'd make one trip instead of going to my normal discount grocery store and I still can't believe the prices.

This would be a good thing for the GOP to start talking about as we get closer to the election...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

200 72 >>> I guarantee you this person has used the "But my Thai food at 3 a.m.!" argument.
Posted by: pookysgirl likes her cold and blustery Iowa at April 17, 2026 03:34 PM (Wt5PA)

Probably not Thai.

Probably Shawarma because they want to show solidarity with the Muzzies.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (iXqHn)

201 193 They blame the housing shortage on the wealthy. They don't blame rent control, over regulation, and grifting government.

This is just kulak bashing in a different form.

Fuck this muzzie asshole with a wooken spike up his ass the way Vlad taught us.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (nEzI3)

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They must also import the third world to make themselves good people. This won't have any effect on the housing market because unexpected consequences do not happen to good people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (B5oTI)

202 Hamlet. Act 1 sc v. "One may smile and smile and still be a villain"

This is what I frequently think when I see pictures of Mamdani . I have never seen a photo of him not smiling.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (ZeH0U)

203
Aren't most towns funded by a property tax any way?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

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That's my impression. I don't consider it the civic duty of the people in my little town to eat out and shop at the local boutiques.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

I get mamdanis point. Since they dont live in NY they dont pay NYC punitive income tax, so he views them as hoarders and wreckers.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (i0Hi3)

204 There's a reason y'all don't hold MoMee's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Yep

CBD would have us all at his mercy.
Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (77rzZ)

CBD is very, very typical of New Jersey. Of that part of the country.

Posted by: Yep at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (r2cqy)

205 195 There's a reason y'all don't hold MoMee's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Yep

CBD would have us all at his mercy.
Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:00 PM (77rzZ)

I had forgotten that he lives there. I suppose he has Reasons ‘N Stuff.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (pDt9x)

206 155 thinner than a slice of prison baloney.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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You forgot to note that prison baloney is green.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (FmapG)

207 Why not just seize everybody's wealth and be done with it?

Lazy fucking commies ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (qE1/4)

208 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (ZeH0U)

Thank you for quoting Shakespeare. The Bard doesn't the love he deserves here.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

209 206 155 thinner than a slice of prison baloney.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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You forgot to note that prison baloney is green.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (FmapG)

Fun Fact - they call baloney and hot dogs Slick Meat in prison.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:03 PM (pDt9x)

210 Its gannett they are cranially inverted

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 17, 2026 04:04 PM (bXbFr)

211 Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (pDt9x

We did have a small meet up at a special room bar in N.J. Sevetal years ago. I organized it. Some of our NJ forum regulars did not attend.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:04 PM (ZeH0U)

212 Aren't most towns funded by a property tax any way?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

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That's my impression. I don't consider it the civic duty of the people in my little town to eat out and shop at the local boutiques.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 03:58 PM (n7rxJ)

I get mamdanis point. Since they dont live in NY they dont pay NYC punitive income tax, so he views them as hoarders and wreckers.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (i0Hi3)
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Even non-residents in NYC pay NYC income taxes if you're employed by a NYC company. That's my situation. I have an apartment in Manhattan and a house in NJ. My official residence is NJ so I can avoid NY state taxes. But since I work for a NYC company in NYC, I can't avoid city taxes. But this arrangement still saves me quite a bit of $$ in overall taxes every year.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 17, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

213 There's a reason y'all don't hold MoMee's in New Jersey.
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Bruce Springsteen, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:05 PM (FmapG)

214 Do you know how stupid you have to be to think people who can afford a second house worth $5,000,000 won't figure out a way to avoid your tax?

The toll gate in Blazing Saddles was a more economically sound of a revenue idea.

Maybe they can send School Marm Hochul out again to scold them, "don't you feel bad you're not funding our welfare programs?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2026 04:05 PM (HXT0k)

215 Zohran Mamdani is hiding behind a NY Gov. Houchul's proposal.

>USA Today - 'New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal on April 15 to tax expensive second homes as a sign of a progressive tide to tax the rich, but it will only apply to absentee owners.'

The proposed NYC pied-à-terre tax would apply an annual surcharge (0.5%–4%) on non-primary residences valued over $5 million. It targets wealthy, non-resident owners of condos and co-ops, including NJ residents and international investors.

Implementation hinges on cross-referencing property tax records, tax filings, and ownership disclosures to identify second homes. (Aside, what are those odds?) Then such a tax would need to be passed in the state’s delayed budget, potentially generating some $500 million in revenue annually, according to Hochul's office.

Because: GENERALLY, only full-year New York City residents pay the NYC Local Personal Income Tax that has graduated rates ranging from 3.078% to 3.876% based on taxable income, thus Hochul’s proposal. (They get snagged through the New York State tax returns.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 17, 2026 04:05 PM (NFX2v)

216
Dunno about the "suspension" of nuclear development, presumably fission weapons, but if you can strap a Blue Sparrow missile to the wing of an F-15, fire it over Israel and have it take out a leadership bunker 1,500 miles away that's 60 feet underground you have a better problem solver than a nuke.

Not to mention pagers.

Posted by: Auspex at April 17, 2026 04:05 PM (Y8DZL)

217 211 Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (pDt9x

We did have a small meet up at a special room bar in N.J. Sevetal years ago. I organized it. Some of our NJ forum regulars did not attend.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:04 PM (ZeH0U)

Could the attendees take the Cannolis if they left their guns??

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:05 PM (pDt9x)

218
I get mamdanis point. Since they dont live in NY they dont pay NYC punitive income tax, so he views them as hoarders and wreckers.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

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Ohhh, no income tax. Funny, he didn't directly say that -- just "HIT THE RICH!" I guess that's more satisfying to his constituents.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 17, 2026 04:06 PM (n7rxJ)

219 My official residence is NJ so I can avoid NY state taxes. But since I work for a NYC company in NYC, I can't avoid city taxes. But this arrangement still saves me quite a bit of $$ in overall taxes every year.
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Elric, you have the worst of times and the worst of times. Run - its a trap!

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:06 PM (FmapG)

220 Let them turn their cities into dust and then tell us "Real socialism has never been tried!!1!"

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"Let them eat Snake!"

/Escape From New York 2: Starvation Boogsloo.

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:06 PM (qE1/4)

221 Zohran Mamdani is hiding behind a NY Gov. Houchul's proposal.

Hochul already made it clear that the Muslim's her bitch. She'll tax who she wants, he doesn't get to do the same. He's already griped about it a few times.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 17, 2026 04:07 PM (3ha+O)

222 Communism just hasn't been tried right yet. Wait you're going to take everything I have, call me a kulak and line me up against a wall and shoot me? That's been done before and is not real communism. Here's real communism means . BANG.
Thank you for your contributions to the state

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2026 04:07 PM (gu0hJ)

223 7 Can he tax the air?

The CO2 everyone exhales?

The water that hits you when it rains and then the city has to clean in its water treatment plants?

Come on, Mamdani, there's so many more ways to tax! Get going!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 03:18 PM (B5oTI)

doesn't Oregon do that? Water is owned by the State?

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 17, 2026 04:07 PM (ubCxQ)

224 So...wait a minute...an extra tax on second homes...did the FNM tell us recently it is no biggie if people lie about whether a home is their primary residence or not to pay less for it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 04:07 PM (sKqQm)

225 Could the attendees take the Cannolis if they left their guns??

There were not cannolis on the bar menu. Cheesecake yes and various others deserts . If they had guns they must have been concealed carry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:08 PM (ZeH0U)

226 Probably Shawarma because they want to show solidarity with the Muzzies.
Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 04:01 PM (iXqHn)

3 am shwarma is not good shwarma.
3 am falafel is guaranteed to be terrible.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 17, 2026 04:08 PM (rbvCR)

227 Trump on Zohran Mamdani:

He's a nice guy. Calls me all the time, says hi. But his policies are no good. He's chasing people out and causing a lot of harm to everybody.

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The death camps are not good, but at least he's a nice commie -- so he's got that going for him!

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (qE1/4)

228 222 Communism just hasn't been tried right yet. Wait you're going to take everything I have, call me a kulak and line me up against a wall and shoot me? That's been done before and is not real communism. Here's real communism means . BANG.
Thank you for your contributions to the state

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2026 04:07 PM (gu0hJ)

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I've learned the real reason all communisms have failed so far.

They were actually CIA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (B5oTI)

229 My official residence is NJ so I can avoid NY state taxes. But since I work for a NYC company in NYC, I can't avoid city taxes. But this arrangement still saves me quite a bit of $$ in overall taxes every year.
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Elric, you have the worst of times and the worst of times. Run - its a trap!
Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:06 PM (FmapG)
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I like it here. I think I have the best of both worlds: an apartment in a major city and a house in the suburbs. Plus, I get to travel a lot.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

230 Dunno about the "suspension" of nuclear development, presumably fission weapons, but if you can strap a Blue Sparrow missile to the wing of an F-15, fire it over Israel and have it take out a leadership bunker 1,500 miles away that's 60 feet underground you have a better problem solver than a nuke.

Not to mention pagers.
Posted by: Auspex at April 17, 2026 04:05 PM (Y8DZL)

If you have your nuke weapons developed to the state they are front-line ready, you don't have to "develop" any more, right? Care and maintenance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (utfVc)

231 The government grocery store thing is somewhat popular because of the explosion in food costs under Biden.

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It's "popular" until they see it in action. Or inaction, to be accurate.

Posted by: Clueless New Yorker at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (Cjger)

232 > Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (rJ48h)

233 One other funny part of this, the left tells me living in the sticks isn't efficient. I have to drive everywhere. Why...there isn't a government office close to me!

And yet NYC one of the densest places in America can only operate with crushing taxes. Funny that isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

234 Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM

You're welcome. My mother the English professor would have been pleased . Shakespeare was mother's milk to me . I think that is from some show on TV

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (ZeH0U)

235 225 Could the attendees take the Cannolis if they left their guns??

There were not cannolis on the bar menu. Cheesecake yes and various others deserts . If they had guns they must have been concealed carry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:08 PM (ZeH0U)

Aww just bustin’ on Jersey a little, Fen. I’m Sure your ‘hood is pretty nice.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (pDt9x)

236 How hard is it to run a grocery store with empty shelves?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (FmapG)

237 Isn't it a benefit to the city for someone to own there and pay taxes but not actually ever use the city's services?

Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (1Z/FH)

238 Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.

Two splits actually.

Posted by: Obviously at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)

239 doesn't Oregon do that? Water is owned by the State?

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 17, 2026 04:07 PM (ubCxQ)

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We have an 880-gallon rain catchment tank (in Northern AZ).

I've heard it's illegal in Colorado to harvest rain ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (qE1/4)

240 Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (rJ48h)

Lickety split?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (utfVc)

241 236 How hard is it to run a grocery store with empty shelves?
Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (FmapG)

Be a pretty sweet job with no customers.

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

242 Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (rJ48h)

Bird Sues Bird

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (BI5O2)

243 Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (pDt9x

I like it, but I have been hear a very long time and have seen the changes. Too much development.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 04:12 PM (ZeH0U)

244 How hard is it to run a grocery store with empty shelves?
Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (FmapG)

The dusting is a bitch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2026 04:12 PM (utfVc)

245 232 > Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (rJ48h)

Who gets custody of the dildos?

Posted by: Loyal WNBA fan at April 17, 2026 04:12 PM (PiwSw)

246 Even non-residents in NYC pay NYC income taxes if you're employed by a NYC company. That's my situation. I have an apartment in Manhattan and a house in NJ. My official residence is NJ so I can avoid NY state taxes. But since I work for a NYC company in NYC, I can't avoid city taxes. But this arrangement still saves me quite a bit of $$ in overall taxes every year.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 17, 2026 04:04 PM

And for this arrangement, commies would accuse you of being a rich man benefiting from rich-man rules.

On the other hand, I think it's good to use every legal means to keep one's money. This year, the federal tax rate on my income was a little over 8%. If I could get it to 2%, that would be fine by me.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 17, 2026 04:12 PM (fxCK2)

247 > Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 17, 2026 04:09 PM (rJ48h)

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Before their adoption of Greta "Pol Tot" Thunberg was finalized?

AND SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH???

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:12 PM (qE1/4)

248 I like it here. I think I have the best of both worlds: an apartment in a major city and a house in the suburbs. Plus, I get to travel a lot.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Being a map and geography buff, I'm sorry that NYC is so effed up. I would love to go there with a street map and just explore. I did a little that when I was on my way to Turkey in 1991. I went to the top of the WTC a little over a decade after the Towers were brought down. I would love to do that again on a more thorough scale. But, alas, it doesn't seem to be in the cards. Aging white guy, so I'd be an instant target.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

249 Rapinoe and Bird have split? The fight over money will be easy, the battle over the strapon collection will be brutal
Oh and eff Rapinoe in particular

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2026 04:13 PM (gu0hJ)

250 I heard they cancelled Pride month in Tennessee. The horror!

Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:13 PM (pDt9x)

251 232 > Megan Rapinoe and former WNBA star Sue Bird have announced that they have split.
Posted by: mr tmz

So, when two angry lesbians scold each other very much there's no baby?

Posted by: Auspex at April 17, 2026 04:14 PM (Y8DZL)

252 Oh and eff Rapinoe in particular
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This.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:14 PM (FmapG)

253 How hard is it to run a grocery store with empty shelves?
Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 04:10 PM (FmapG)

Be a pretty sweet job with no customers.
Posted by: tubal at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

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Imagine how much cocaine Hunter could snort off of those empty shelves.

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:14 PM (qE1/4)

254 WNBA star

Now there's an oxymoron.

Posted by: far cry at April 17, 2026 04:14 PM (wBRco)

255 I'd like to say things about Mamdami - and his ilk - but they would no doubt get me banned. So I'll STFU.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2026 04:16 PM (QSxSN)

256 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

257 I like it here. I think I have the best of both worlds: an apartment in a major city and a house in the suburbs. Plus, I get to travel a lot.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Being a map and geography buff, I'm sorry that NYC is so effed up. I would love to go there with a street map and just explore. I did a little that when I was on my way to Turkey in 1991. I went to the top of the WTC a little over a decade after the Towers were brought down. I would love to do that again on a more thorough scale. But, alas, it doesn't seem to be in the cards. Aging white guy, so I'd be an instant target.
Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ)
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NYC gets 65 million visitors a year. It's the #1 tourism destination in the country, if not the world. If 65M people come here every year, then I think one more aging white guy (and his wife?) will be fine.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 17, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

258 Zolhan thd modern Robin Hood, robs from the rich to givd a little to the poor and pocket the rest

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 04:17 PM (Ia/+0)

259 Why not just seize everybody's wealth and be done with it?

Lazy fucking commies ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:02 PM (qE1/4)

Slowly, and then all at once.

It's a smart start for the Commie. I think most New Yorkers will feel little sympathy for the super duper richie-riches (many of whom are of the Jewish persuasion) who 'horde' the nicest places but then don't even bother to live there.

Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2026 04:17 PM (1Z/FH)

260 pudinhead: "How hard is it to run a grocery store with empty shelves?"

I saw years' worth of home videos (from my own relatives) who returned to the Baltics during the years approaching the fall of the Berlin Wall and immediately after. There were about as many customers as there was food on the shelves. Almost nothing, practically bare.

So in Mamdani's communist store, there will be decent prices for unlimited items that will not exist. They might as well light that construction money on fire now.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 17, 2026 04:18 PM (oji8u)

261 147 " Hochul, a moderate Democrat up for re-election in November, . ."

WTF?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2026 03:48 PM (dBJdm)

==

There are no moderate Democrats (even Fetterman, who is ok on some issues, is loony left on most).

"Moderate" is simply code for "white". Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Posted by: can of spam at April 17, 2026 04:19 PM (14gFN)

262 🤷

Effective July 1, 2025, rates are 3.74% for residents & 3.43% for non-residents. (It used to be much worse!) But there's always been a reciprocal agreement with N.J. for its residents, too. 🤬

Pennsylvania workers face a mandatory 3.07% flat state income tax, plus local taxes that vary by municipality, typically including a Local Earned Income Tax (EIT) and a Local Services Tax (LST). Employers withhold these based on the higher of the employee’s residence rate or work location rate, managed through specific PSD codes.
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Delaware imposes a graduated personal income tax on all workers, ranging from 2.2% to 6.6% for income over $60,000. Employers must withhold the tax from both residents and non-residents. Key benefits include no state sales tax, though the state applies unemployment insurance (UI) taxes and local taxes for some areas.

The City of Wilmington, Delaware, imposes a 1.25% earned income tax (wage tax) on the gross wages of all residents and non-residents who work within city limits. This tax, often called the city wage tax, is generally withheld by employers to fund city services like police, fire, and sanitation.

Note: The rich don't live in Wilmington.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 17, 2026 04:19 PM (NFX2v)

263 I've heard it's illegal in Colorado to harvest rain ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 04:11 PM (qE1/4)

New Jersey too, last I checked.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 17, 2026 04:20 PM (nbLIj)

264 @263 Even the runoff from your gutters? You're kidding right?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 04:21 PM (cWLG3)

265 262. The first was for Philadelphia City Wage Tax.

Sorry.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 17, 2026 04:22 PM (NFX2v)

266 New Jersey isn't a desert

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 04:25 PM (Ia/+0)

267 Gee, for a great city and just world class on everything a city should be, NYC has the common sense of a gnat. But they are so stupid they can't help cutting down other cities that are a thousand times better off than they are. Why the f*ck do they care about cities in Florida and Texas? They need to clean their own dump up before they criticize anyone else.

Posted by: Case at April 17, 2026 04:27 PM (pvf3X)

268
As has been pointed out, if you understand that communists like Mamdami and Hochul, or more precisely the unseen people who direct them, want society to crash so they can rule over the rubble, then their actions make perfect sense.

This is also why trying to reason with them or their idiot supporters is pointless. The real argument is not about stupid free grocery stores or whether to drive out the top taxpayers, it's about whether to destroy existing society -- and they're not budging on that ---- or even publicly admitting it at this time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 17, 2026 04:31 PM (azNOR)

269 Her parents are Syrian Muslims, and she a Texas (Houston) born 'artist' whose parents married shortly before her birth.

In 2006, following her mother's appointment at the local American Hospital, the family left their home in Wayne, New Jersey, and moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates,[5][6][7] and Duwaji spent the remainder of her childhood in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.[8]

After graduating from high school, Duwaji studied communication arts at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.[5][7] She first attended classes at the school's satellite campus in Doha, Qatar, during her freshman year, then transferred to its main campus in Richmond, Virginia,[5][7] where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude in 2019.[5][9]

Duwaji then returned to Dubai and participated in various artist residencies, including in Beirut, Lebanon, and in Paris, France,[5] until moving to New York City in 2021 to study illustration. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2024,[5][10] with a graduate thesis focused on making and sharing dishes as a communal act.[5]

More, Wikipedia.

The bottom-line, she was just a child and y'all meanies.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 17, 2026 04:32 PM (NFX2v)

270 Even the runoff from your gutters? You're kidding right?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 04:21 PM (cWLG3)

I recall my late brother keeping a rainbarrel on one of his gutters and had a "from my cold dead hands" attitude about it..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 17, 2026 04:36 PM (nbLIj)

271 @269
" a graduate thesis focused on making and sharing dishes as a communal act." WTF

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 04:37 PM (cWLG3)

272 264 So I just checked, and there are no statewide ordinances restricting rain barrels. My brother lived in Union, and there might have been a local ordinance that he was flipping off..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 17, 2026 04:41 PM (nbLIj)

273 It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at April 17, 2026 05:06 PM (Qtsbw)

274 Do a husband and a wife need to live in the same dwelling for from a tax perspective?

Posted by: pawn at April 17, 2026 06:33 PM (CGX3Y)

275 It may have been said already, but if you own a property valued >$5m but spent less than that, just sell it for something between what you paid and

Posted by: stevew at April 17, 2026 09:11 PM (bOkAV)

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