“The Left will continue to demand more redistribution and revenue — income and corporate taxes. Hochul continues to insist she won’t do any of that. On the other hand, she also said that she absolutely would not tax the rich, and that anyone demanding she do it was actually cementing her resolve not to. That turned out to be false.”

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https://jacobin.com/2026/04/zohran-tax-rich-hochul-nyc/

Zohran Mamdani and the Left Made Kathy Hochul Tax the Rich

In New York City, a tax on superexpensive second homes is a victory for Zohran Mamdani and the socialist movement and should mark the beginning of a larger project of redistribution.

@caitp

Better a redistribution of wealth now,
than a redistribution of heads later.

#TaxTheRich #TaxTheRichFeedThePoor

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It’s going to be such a massive clean up this time: “‘They were careless people,’ Fitzgerald wrote, ‘they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.’” 🤬

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November 1, 2025

Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.

Letters from an American
Paris, la capitale où s’enracinent les grandes fortunes

Dans une note de la Fondation Jean Jaurès, Jérôme Fourquet et Marie Gariazzo analysent la nouvelle géographie sociale issue de l’accroissement des inégalités de patrimoine depuis des décennies. Dans la capitale, l’accumulation des richesses « atteint des proportions inégalées ».

Le Monde

#ZohranMamdani on this month's cover of #InTheseTimes! Here's one of the articles from the August/September issue...

Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

Mamdani’s NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

by Hamilton Nolan, June 25, 2025

Excerpt: "What, exactly, is the scary socialism of Zohran Mamdani that all of the #billionaires are screaming about from their high towers? #FreeBuses. #LowerRents. #PublicChildcare. Higher minimum wage. #SocialWorkers for homeless people instead of cops. Better grocery stores. Ahh! No! Not… not… all of these common sense ideas that the vast majority of NYC residents would be happy for! Anything but that!

"There is a limit to the political effectiveness of #RichMen who have servants telling regular people that their lives cannot be better. We may have reached that limit. The threat of the rich is that they will flee the city. The flaw in their leverage is that almost nobody likes them anyhow.

"Zohran’s campaign was distinguished by its determination to treat voters as adults. When accused of ​'defunding the police,' Mamdani took the time to explain that he wants to create a department of mental health experts and social workers to take work off the NYPD’s plate. When accused of #antisemitism, he took the time to forthrightly distinguish that smear from valid criticism of the massacre in #Gaza. He was, often, more adult than the political press covering him, which is trained to treat dishonest attack lines as sporting challenges rather than as things to be dismissed. The youngest candidate in this race acted with the most maturity. The oldest, #AndrewCuomo, ran with the traditional playbook of treating voters like ignorant children — and failed.

"Old people with old ideas do not stay in power forever. Old lies and old tricks do not work forever. Time moves slowly — excruciatingly slowly, if you are always paying attention — but it does sweep away the old husks and bring new things, eventually. #Socialists want more people to have decent lives. Zohran Mamdani is proof that that message cannot be mischaracterized forever and ever. We will look back on this primary win as the start of something new. If America is going to have one lone opposition party to #fascism, that party does not have to suck. The establishment is too deeply rooted to move. So we will run them over."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-cuomo-democratic-party

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#DemocraticSocialists
#DINOs #CuomoSucks #TaxTheRichFeedThePoor #DSA

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