‘Run from that area’: Ron DeSantis urges tax-worn New Yorkers to flee and ‘embrace’ Florida — blasts Mamdani tax hikes

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a connection for frustrated New Yorkers: there's a amended spot to beryllium — and it's the Sunshine State.

During a caller interrogation with Sean Hannity, DeSantis blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's taxation agenda, arguing that the city's affordability situation won't beryllium solved by raising taxes connected spot owners.

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"I saw your clip with Barack Obama saying, oh, Mamdani, each helium wants to bash is assistance radical spend housing," DeSantis said (1). "Well, Sean, if that's the case, wherefore did helium suggest earlier this twelvemonth the biggest spot taxation summation successful the past of New York City?"

Mamdani faced backlash successful February aft proposing a astir 9.5% property-tax hike arsenic a "path of past resort" to assistance adjacent a multibillion-dollar fund spread if Albany did not hold to higher taxes connected corporations and the wealthy. Such a spot taxation hike would impact much than 3 cardinal residential units and implicit 100,000 commercialized buildings crossed the metropolis (2).

DeSantis argued the connection would person deed millions of New Yorkers, including "cops and firefighters and nurses," and said it undercut Mamdani's transportation that his policies are designed to marque beingness much affordable.

"The thought that he's conscionable retired to benignant of assistance radical spend lodging — no," DeSantis said. "He's retired to propulsion a Marxist agenda. He's a leftist. That's what they do."

DeSantis besides took purpose astatine however Mamdani delivered his broader "tax the rich" connection — including by targeting billionaire hedge money manager Ken Griffin.

On Tax Day, Mamdani released a video extracurricular 220 Central Park South, wherever Griffin owns a four-floor penthouse helium bought for astir $238 cardinal successful 2019. In the video, Mamdani pointed to Griffin's location portion promoting a projected pied-à-terre taxation connected luxury 2nd homes successful New York City (3).

"This pied-à-terre taxation is specifically designed for the richest of the rich. Those who store their wealthiness successful New York City existent estate, but who don't really unrecorded here," Mamdani said successful the video.

"When you spell successful beforehand of somebody's location and effort to surveil that and enactment that retired to the satellite successful the hopes, I believe, they were trying to rile radical up to possibly bash thing adjacent worse," DeSantis said of the video. "Of course, you're going to privation to tally from that area, and you're going to privation to clasp Florida, truthful I'm not amazed that they're doing that."