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| Pied-à-Terre Tax: Hochul's Dumbest Scheme Yet |
| Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled one of her worst ideas yet: slapping extra taxes on wealthy New Yorkers who maintain second homes in the city. The scheme targets people who've fled to places like Florida or Texas but kept a pied-à-terre in New York, supposedly to make them pay their fair share for city services like Broadway and museums. | | The logic is absurd. These property owners already pay hefty real estate taxes, employ doormen and cleaners, and support restaurants, theaters, and businesses when they visit. Hochul seems determined to drive them away completely, especially when combined income taxes in New York can exceed 50 percent for high earners when federal rates are included. | | History shows people have their limits. Sweden learned this lesson in 1976 when beloved author Astrid Lindgren discovered she was paying more than 100 percent marginal tax rates. Her satirical response helped topple a government that had ruled for over 40 years. Hochul's pied-à-terre tax is just virtue signaling to progressives like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders while further depressing an already struggling luxury real estate market. | | The real solution to New York's budget woes? Cut spending. New York City, with 8 million residents, spends nearly as much as Florida with 23 million people. But Hochul and Mamdani won't touch that option because they're beholden to public employee unions. Instead, they'll keep punishing success and wondering why the wealthy keep leaving. |
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| NYC's Sanctuary City Madness: Officials Refuse to Hand Over Illegal Alien Who Burned 4 People Alive |
"This monster set fire to a building and watched as innocent people, including a three-year-old, burned to death. New York City sanctuary politicians REFUSE to cooperate with ICE." |
| New York City's sanctuary policies have hit a horrifying new low. Roman Ceron Amatitla, a 38-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, allegedly set fire to a Queens apartment building that killed four people including a three-year-old child. Prosecutors say he randomly selected the Flushing building, bought beer and matches, then lit paper on fire near a stairwell. While victims burned and jumped from windows, he reportedly stood watching while casually sipping beer. | | Queens DA Melinda Katz called it an act of mass murder. But here's the outrage: when ICE requested that New York City corrections hold Amatitla for immigration authorities, the city refused. Thanks to radical sanctuary policies, NYC is choosing to protect an accused mass murderer over innocent Americans. DHS reports the city has released nearly 7,000 illegal immigrants since January, including suspects in 29 homicides and over 2,500 assaults. | | Another 7,000 illegals with active ICE detainers remain in custody for equally horrific offenses. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul are literally choosing criminal aliens over American citizens. When sanctuary cities protect arsonists who burn children alive, they've lost all moral authority. | | New Yorkers deserve leaders who put public safety first, not political virtue signaling. Every day these policies remain in place, more innocent lives hang in the balance while dangerous criminals walk free among us. This madness has to stop. |
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