Socialist NYC Mayor Celebrates Tax On Rich People's Second Homes As City Braces For More Empty Buildings And Unemployed Doormen

In a development that surprised only those who sleep through city council meetings, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated the Kathy Hochul backed levy on second homes worth more than $5M and immediately reminded everyone why no one should ever hand a socialist the keys to the tax code.

New York City mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani is facing heat on social media after his post celebrating the state’s new pied-à-terre tax on New Yorkers with a second home."If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5 million, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs, because you've got mail," Mamdani posted on X, touting the tax on specific second properties introduced by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul that he supported going into effect soon.

"Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon," the anti-Semitic comrade continued. "The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share."

As of Friday morning, Mamdani’s post had been viewed over 10 million times and conservatives on social media blasted the mayor and warned that the exodus of wealthy New Yorkers will only continue under this new plan.

Here are just some of the comments posted on X:

"Never elect a politician who: (1) sees your money as his slush fund, (2) loves Karl Marx, or (3) uses French words like ‘pied-à-terre’ to disguise new, confiscatory taxes he wants to impose to redistribute wealth," Republican Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).

"Socialism - Florida’s best real estate agent," Republican Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL).

"NYC’s pied-à-terre tax hasn’t even started and brokers already say owners are calling to sell," GOP strategist and attorney Mehek Cooke posted. Apparently, owners who can afford a luxury pied-à-terre are smart enough to get out of the cauldron on the stove before it starts to boil.

"Empty units don’t tip [doormen] or pay supers. You’re not taxing the rich. You’re firing the working class that depended on them." Communists are too busy virtue signaling to realize this fact.

"More incitement," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton posted. "Communist @NYCMayor celebrates a confiscatory tax targeted at a select few."

"What will the excuse be when literally nothing improves after all these tax increases?" New York City Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino posted. "Will they just demand even more, or will they tell us to ignore our own eyes as they insist they’ve actually fixed everything? Both? "

"The condescension towards the people who already pay a ton of property taxes to NYC," Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross posted.

Critics, including billionaire Ken Griffin whose luxury New York City home was featured in Mamdani's controversial video announcing the tax, argue the tax will only drive more wealthy New Yorkers out of the state and bring jobs and investments with them.

And while comrade Mamdani is a communist cum jihadi, he loves himself some capitalism, as does his family, in spite of their spouting the opposite.

Mahmood Mamdani, the father of Zohran, is a Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of political science where he preaches communist ideas, anthropology, and African studies at Columbia University. He makes somewhere in the neighborhood of $300,000; probably more.

Mira Nair, his mommy, is an independent filmmaker, director and producer and while she doesn't receive a fixed salary, her income from directing and producing fees, royalties, residuals, grants and her production company (Mirabai Films) rakes in a lot of capital, bringing he capital estimated to be between $20-$40 million or more. While this is unverified, it's likely quite a reasonable estimate. In addition, she and her professor hubby own a 5-bedroom, four-bathroom villa on two acres in the tony Buziga Hill neighborhood and for the past 8 years have rented it out as an Airbnb for roughly $330-$350 per night.

Zohran Mamdani publicly acknowledged that he lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in Astoria, Queens with his semi-ordinary wife in a one-bedroom apartment.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Professor Pops Drops a Bombshell: Hitler Took Cues from Lincoln?

Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s got some family baggage that’s raising eyebrows. His dad, Mahmood Mamdani, a big-shot Columbia prof, dropped a wild claim in a 2022 Asia Society panel, tying none other than Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler’s playbook for the Holocaust. Yeah, you read that right.

Zohran, the self-described socialist gunning for NYC’s top job, grew up with a silver spoon and a side of spicy political debates, courtesy of his parents, according to a New York Times profile. His mom’s an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, and his dad’s no slouch either, a Herbert Lehman professor of government at Columbia, with a stack of books to his name. 

But it’s Papa Mamdani’s 2022 comments that are stirring the pot.

"America was the genesis of what we call settler-colonialism," Mahmood declared at the Asia Society, pointing to the Civil War. "With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that's what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized, is that you don't have to have a common citizenship."

Mahmood didn’t stop there. He claimed Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, yes, the racist, anti-Semitic ones, were “patterned after American laws.” He even argued there’s no daylight between “nationalism and colonialism” and that the Allies in WWII were basically on the same wavelength as the Nazis. "The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation. A ‘pure’ nation rid of its minorities," he said. "When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans – move them back into Germany. One crime doesn't wipe out another." 

But the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and critics are digging up Zohran’s own radical gems. At a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America [aka Communists] conference, he rallied the crowd to go all-in, no compromises, on stuff like "seizing the means of production." Classic. 

Then there’s a Gravel Institute video where he pushes for turning housing into a public free-for-all, ditching luxury condos for communal laundries and food co-ops. "If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full de-commodification of housing," he preached.

But back to Dad. 

Mahmood’s got more head-scratchers. In an interview about his book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, he argued the term "suicide bomber" is bunk because they’re just like "soldier[s] whose objective is to kill." And as per the Washington Free Beacon, he’s even called Israel "the logical conclusion of Nazism." 

Bold move, professor. You make Columbia University proud.

The Mamdani clan’s no stranger to the spotlight. But as Zohran surges in the mayoral race, these fiery family takes are fueling questions about what kind of leader he’d be. In all probability, a horrible, leftist anti-Semitic mayor.

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