Newsweek – Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York’s next mayor is a disaster for the city. Judging by his campaign promises alone, he will spike New York City’s taxes to the nation’s highest levels to finance a massive program of welfare spending that it can ill afford, reduce policing in a way that strongly correlates with rising crime, discriminate against whites, whom he says should be taxed at higher rates than minorities, and Jews, who are the main targets of nefarious groups and individuals whom his rhetoric supports, and take measures against the very capitalist system that made New York great and built its massive wealth.
Polling data show that the mere fact of Mamdani’s election will drive away hundreds of thousands of residents – among them many of New York’s most productive and highest taxpaying citizens—who have said they will “definitely” leave—to friendlier climates, while over two million more say they will consider it. Business, finance, capital, and prosperity will surely follow.
Even leaving these facts aside, neither the doctrinaire socialism nor militant Islam have ever improved any place on earth, and New York City will not be the first. Here in Florida, where we have neither income nor inheritance tax, and where property taxes may soon be a thing of the past, we are already seeing the New York license plates of refugees seeking a better home and a brighter life. They are welcome.