Well, that didn’t age well.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promise to only ever raise taxes on the city’s uber-wealthy is coming back to bite him — after threatening New Yorkers with a nearly 10% hike in property taxes.
Hizzoner repeatedly made the vow on the trail last year, telling voters that he would only push Albany to raise taxes on people pulling in the most money each year in the Big Apple.
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“I don’t want to pay more taxes,” the Subway Takes host says.
“Do you make more than $1 million or more a year?” Mamdani jokes with the host as he shakes his head no.
“Then, your taxes are not going up. The only taxes that we are proposing are on the 1% of New Yorkers who make $1 million or more a year.”
But after Mamdani threatened New Yorkers this week with a 9.5% property tax hike, the video started making the rounds again.
“This did not age well… Property taxes going up for all. Good job NY,” one user said, echoing many of the recent comments.