“Leave Our Taxes Alone!” Backlash Erupts Over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Middle-Class Tax Hike Plan

The anger isn’t coming from Republicans this time — it’s coming from New York Democrats furious at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to plug a $5.4 billion budget gap with a nearly 10% hike in property taxes. Under Mamdani’s proposal, property taxes in NYC would jump 9.5% if the state refuses to pass a separate wealth tax on the richest residents. He’s already conceded the obvious: this would “effectively be a tax on working and middle-class New Yorkers.”