Catherine Salgado writes for PJMedia.com about the latest clash between the president and the mayor of his former home city.
The late, great Margaret Thatcher once observed, “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” That is what New York City Democrats are going to do if they persist in their outrageous new taxation plan.
At some point either this year or next year, thousands of wealthy homeowners in New York City are set to pay the pied-à-terre tax on “non-primary” homes worth over $1 million. The threat of the tax has already driven more people to rent instead of buying property, and has also encouraged the ongoing problem of top-tier taxpayers leaving the lefty state.
This concerns Donald Trump, who, of course, lived in New York City for many years himself, and who has a mutual antipathy toward Commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The president posted on TruthSocial August 11, “The NYC Pied-A-Terre Tax is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return. Florida, Texas, and numerous other States, are making an absolute fortune!”
Despite the fact that wealth is transferring to Republican states, Trump understandably is still worried about one of our greatest, most historic, and most influential cities. “This dangerous political ‘experiment’ in New York will destroy what was once a great City and State,” he warned. “It is pure Amateur Hour, and it’s hard, as President of the United States of America, to sit back and watch it happen, especially to a place I once loved. Financial, and then Social, RUIN, is a 100% certainty – And then the Radical Left Jihadists charge Congestion Pricing on top of everything else.” Mamdani is infamous for defending jihadis and encouraging violent antisemitism.
