Mayor Zo remains oblivious to the bad impact of his pending tax hikes on middle class access to home ownership and free markets, as this episode at the Allen AME church displays. From the New York Post:
Zohran Mamdani has a problem with the black political establishment, as well as the black middle class.
And he knows it, hence his pilgrimage to Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Queens on Palm Sunday.
It was no accident that he was seated next to Rep. Gregory Meeks, the boss of the Queens Democratic machine, and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.
But proximity to establishment leadership does not make up for the lack of a working political relationship — or bad ideas.
Greater Allen AME, and in particular that section of Queens, is home to New York’s greatest concentration of the black middle class — professionals, civil servants, corporate workers, Democratic operatives and, most importantly, homeowners.
These are the people Mamdani addressed on Palm Sunday about the evil of . . . city tax liens sales and how those sales force black New Yorkers out of the city.
Surprisingly, the mayor didn’t attempt to quell concerns about his own two tax proposals, which directly threaten their ability to own their homes or to pass on the wealth generated by those properties to their heirs.
Feeling robbed
Mamdani didn’t dare speak about his threatened 9.5% property tax hike or his push to lower the “death” tax threshold, the state’s estate-tax exemption, from $7 million to $750,000, and tripling the top rate to 50%.
The median sale price for a home in Southeast Queens is fast approaching $750,000… See More