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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Mayor Mamdani busted for lying--big time

Late last week, we learned that Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, had illustrated a book for the Palestinian-American author and journalist Susan Abulhawa, a woman with a distinctly troubling record of antisemitism, including describing Jews as "cockroaches," "rootless parasites," and "rabid demons."

This revelation arrived hot on the heels of the earlier discovery that Duwaji had liked dozens of social media posts celebrating the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Once again, Mamdani stepped forward to run interference for his wife, insisting that she had secured the freelance illustrating job through a third party and had no idea it was for Abulhawa. He described Abulhawa's remarks as "reprehensible," which, one notes, fits neatly with Mamdani's apparent habit of throwing friends and allies under the bus when the moment requires it.

And we say "friends and allies" advisedly, because it turns out the Mamdani family has rather more substantial ties to Abulhawa, and to many like her, than the mayor would have us believe. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s family has crossed paths with the anti-Israel activist who called Jews “cockroaches” and “vampires,” despite his attempts to distance himself from her.

Susan Abulhawa, now 55, sits on the Advisory Policy Council of the Gaza Tribunal alongside Mamdani’s father, the Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani. The group, a select body of just 29 members, was set up in London in 2024 and presents itself as an independent “people’s tribunal” dedicated to gathering evidence against Israel in Gaza. Among its other prominent figures is the British Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn.

But the connections run deeper still. Abulhawa was a featured speaker at Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, an institution with which Mamdani Sr., a long-time professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been closely associated, his name appearing in a bio on their website.

Moreover, Abulhawa was among the prominent signatories to a 2018 open letter addressed to members of the Saudi royal family, urging them to release the professor and women’s rights activist Hatoon al-Fassi. Mamdani’s filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, as well as his father, were also among those who signed.

This is not an isolated incident but part of a clear pattern: Mamdani repeatedly finds himself acquainted with deeply controversial figures and then denies, or at least minimizes, the connections. Last fall, we learned that his family had ties to an Ugandan politician who wished to imprison gays for life, despite his protestations of ignorance.

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When one marries, one generally ensures compatibility on the big questions. Supporting Islamic terrorism, or at the very least declining to recoil from those who do, appears to be one of those big questions in the Mamdani marriage.

New Yorkers were warned. They chose to ignore the warnings.

We are sure, of course, that it is all just a coincidence.

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