Mayor Zohran Mamdani has doubled down on his "Eat the rich" campaign by publishing a list of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers guilty of . . . owning an apartment. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google Mayor Zohran Mamdani has doubled down on his “Eat the rich” campaign by publishing a list of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers guilty of . . . owning an apartment.
The city Department of Finance released an “enemies list” of property owners who might be covered by the new non-resident “pied-a-terre” tax — a kind of one-stop class-warfare shopping list for antifa radicals looking for targets.
Mind you, publicizing the list serves no good purpose: The city is mailing all these owners asking them to clarify if they don’t qualify for the new tax, so this publicity isn’t about informing them, it’s about scaring them.
Worse: As the DoF website admits, the list “is not limited to, those properties that may be subject to the surcharge,” meaning most of the list isn’t relevant to the new tax.
Above all, many people on the list are the primary residents of the homes they own, which can be a condo or coop that would sell at $1 million or more — which includes a ton of one-bedroom pads in today’s market.
Too bad for you if your modest residence is now a target for some anarchist disgruntled about his own poor station in life.
Worse yet, the whole thing is slapdash, blatantly generated with no human bothering to examine it.
Consider: Who’s not paying their “fair share” on the $37 million brownstone at 1033 Fifth Ave., across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Why, the Islamic Republic of Iran, that’s who — and many other tax-exempt diplomatic buildings also made the list.
Why did no one at City Hall stop this amateur-hour idiocy?
Because the Democratic Socialist crew is obsessed with naming and shaming their “class enemies”: As national DSA co-chair Megan Romer explained on Fox News Sunday, “We will win by making conditions so intolerable to the ruling class that they would rather give in to our demands than live with the disturbance we cause.”
They want everyone owning private property to fear their wrath.
Take notice: When somebody puts you on their enemies list, they mean it.
