while putting forth proposals that will surely drive the wealthy from the city, he complained about the city’s shrinking tax base and suggested a solution sure to drive out even more wealthy New Yorkers: raising taxes on the 1%.

“We are talking about our tax base growing smaller and smaller each day, with New Yorkers leaving to New Jersey, to Pennsylvania, to Connecticut,” Mamdani whined.

”If we do not meet this moment, we will lose the city.”


Although he plans to fund his policies by taxing the city’s wealthiest residents, he expressed his disdain for them.