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Zohran Mamdani's plan to fix New York City's budget crisis involves pressuring Albany to soak the rich with higher income taxes on millionaires and bigger levies on profitable corporations, claiming it's the "fairest" way to avoid hurting working families. If state leaders refuse, he threatens a massive 9.5% city property tax hike as a backup, which would slam homeowners, co-op residents, and middle-class New Yorkers. This ultimatum-style approach is designed to force higher taxes on the wealthy by holding property owners hostage. How is the warmth of collectivism now in New York? We Also Cover: Customer service call centers. Savannah Guthrie writes about a kidnapping. Taking your calls. Ozempic houses are a thing? Poop on the sidewalks of New York City. Property taxes are immoral. Whoopi Goldberg is in the Epstein files.1:33:32 Who Exactly is on the Epstein List? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices