The moment New York City’s new mayor published that searchable database, I knew things were about to get ugly. Every property owner in the five boroughs with a non-primary residence worth over a million dollars was suddenly listed by name and address, for anyone to look up. The city’s Department of Finance said publishing that roll was required by state law. I see something far more sinister going on.
This mayor, Zohran Mamdani, knows he can’t send the NYPD after people like some kind of political police force. Not while we’re still a constitutional republic. So instead, he stirs up the mob. He’s already publicly called for demonstrations outside.
We saw what those looked like a couple years ago—horrible anti-Israel, anti-Jewish protests that shut down Grand Central. Isn’t that what he’s really doing here? Doxxing people to set the mob on them? And here’s the part that gets me: some of the people on that list don’t even qualify for that tax.
Some of them are wealthy left-leaning folks who supported him all the way. Now they’re turning on him because he put their names and addresses out there for the world to see. But I can’t say I’m surprised. He told everybody exactly who he was before he got into power.
Anytime somebody says, “Put me in a position of power and this is what I’m going to do,” you can’t really get mad when they do it. That’s what I always said about Trump too. He told you what he was going to do, and more or less, that’s what he does. Same thing with this guy.
Still, the doxxing is terrible. If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of that, you know it’s not fun. As the mayor of a city full of VIPs, he should have been far more careful. But the real issue, the political one, is that we on the right don’t take this man seriously enough.
I think he’s dangerous. I think he’s smart. Every poll this year shows that when you ask voters what matters to them, most people under 50, and especially voters 18 to 34, say housing and affordability. And if we keep ignoring that, if we don’t offer a real conservative alternative to what he’s promising, we’re going to get our clocks cleaned.
Meanwhile, millionaires are running out of New York City. The mayor is losing a big chunk of the tax base, and he’s out there promising to confiscate people’s property. And nobody in New York will do anything about it. They have a saying: tough men make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make tough times.
And tough times make tough men. Right now, we’re stuck at the weak men stage. This is my generation—the 30-somethings, the 40-somethings. We’re going to make it a lot tougher for everybody because we wouldn’t stand up when we should have.
Just look at the numbers. They call it the millionaire exodus. In 2010, about 12. 7% of people living in New York were millionaires.
By 2022, that dropped to 8. 7%. A lot of people left during COVID, but a lot more are leaving now because this guy got elected and he wants to tax anyone making $300,000 or more. The city council, the DA, the mayor—none of them have made things better.
After COVID, businesses realized they could be mobile. They closed their shops here. Rent prices are way too high because of all the taxation. People found Florida, Texas, and Tennessee to be much better places to live.
New York City is losing billions of dollars as high-net-worth individuals pack up and leave. And all of this was already happening before Mamdani even took office. It’s not just people leaving—it’s investment too. There was that controversial video of Mumtaz, the mayor’s radical supporter, blasting Citadel CEO Ken Griffin by name and celebrating a wealth tax aimed at guys like him.
Griffin, one of the biggest investors in New York, responded, “Okay, fine. I’m pulling the investment I was about to make in New York and moving those operations down to Miami. ” And he did. These aren’t numbers made up by some random organization.
These come from the IRS and federal data trackers. New York lost roughly $11 billion in tax revenue in a single year. Florida is the premier destination, with Texas close behind. In 2023, people who moved down there brought $21 billion in net interstate wealth.
New York loses about $11 billion on average. And to add icing on this socialist cake, the mayor has rolled out a plan to confiscate people’s real estate. He literally wants to take property from people and give it to the public. And he has crowds cheering him on.
Maybe if I were poor and felt like there was no way out of the hole, and somebody came along saying, “We’re just going to steal from those who have and give it to you,” maybe I’d cheer too. I don’t know. I’ve never been in a position where I didn’t believe I could improve my situation. I still believe in the American dream.
Working hard alone isn’t enough, but working hard at the right things at the right time—that’s how you get ahead. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in the world other than the USA. But in this mayor’s New York, what does that get you? They want to steal your property and hand it to other people.
The New York Post reported that a woke tenant group is pushing to use $2. 2 billion in taxpayer money to take rent-stabilized units from landlords. The nonprofit was founded by Ceá Weaver, a radical tenant advocate who ran it until she joined Mamdani’s administration in January. The group says it wants to use that newly approved taxpayer fund to let tenant-backed groups take over rent-stabilized units.
They were vague on the details, but on X they wrote: “If landlords can’t maintain their buildings, tenants will. ” They went on, “The mayor’s housing plan directs $2. 2 billion to taking housing off their hands. Tenants are organizing to defend our communities and reclaim our homes.
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These are people who don’t even own the buildings. They just want to take them. And it’s not the first time Mamdani or Weaver have declared their intention to socialize housing. So here we are.
Nobody will stop him. He’s like a comic book villain—an evil genius with no superhero to come along and do the easy thing, like just cutting off his power. In the comics, there’s always some fatal flaw, some button that everybody was too scared to push. With this guy, nobody will push the button.
Nobody will turn off the power source. But I’m going to predict this won’t turn into anything lasting. All it would take is some strong people willing to step up. If we had a governor who simply said, “Shut this down,” it would be over by now.
We just needed somebody with the backbone to say, “We’re not doing that,” and that would be the end of it. We’ll see what happens. Drop your predictions below.
