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New York City has fallen. Remember in The Dark Knight Rises when the villain Bane decides to take over and destroy Gotham City by essentially unleashing a gigantic class war? Well, imagine that Bane doesn't wear a mask, but instead a smarmy smile. That he has the adoration of an entire legacy media and that he also sympathizes with the radical Islamic hatred for the United States. Well, that would be Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Yesterday, Zohran Mamdani pulled the single most disgusting communist stunt I've probably ever seen in America, in New York City. And it's only going to get worse from here. We'll get to that. Plus, Mamdani spitting in the faces of 9-11 families, Hunter Biden sitting down with Nick Fuentes, and feminist Odyssey translator Emily Wilson agreeing with the post-liberal right about the shortcomings of Christopher Nolan's film. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
So it is certainly not unprecedented in human history that when people take positions of power, they seek to unleash the proletariat against the bourgeois. In fact, it's really, really common. Well, Zohran Mamdani decided yesterday that it would be a great idea to do this in the most obvious and disgusting way. So yesterday, according to the New York Post, Mamdani's administration published a searchable database of New York properties that could theoretically fall under the state's new Pieta Terra tax. It's that Pieta Terra tax was supposed to be a tax on people's second homes. And now the city has decided to upload a comprehensive list purporting to cover all unoccupied non-primary residents in the five boroughs worth north of a million bucks, but not just the addresses, the full names and the addresses of every single property owner. So it's just a list of supposedly rich people.
The New York Post counted some 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani's Pieta Terra tax, even though originally when he was selling this stuff, he said it would be 31,000 homes that would be liable for the Pieta Terra tax, the second home tax. So they listed almost a million residences and people.
And includes everybody, everybody who's rich, including, by the way, some A-list celebrities like Taylor Swift, Cynthia Nixon, ironically, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.
Two city council members appeared in the document. It was originally supposed to list apparently only non-primary residences, which again is bad. OK, it would be bad if they had just done it the way they were supposed to by listing non-primary residences. First of all, why is it your business who owes tax? Why is that your business? As long as they are abiding by the law and paying the tax that they owe, why ought you know their name and address? There is only one reason to dox people this way, to release people's name and address and say, these are the Richie Riches. There is only one reason to do that, and it's because you wish to unleash the proletariat on the bourgeois. That is the reason to do this. You are increasing danger to actual human beings for political gain. That is what Zohran Mamdani is doing. But it turns out that he's also bad at it because he also is targeting a bunch of people who actually are living in their apartments. Remember, Pieta Terre is supposed to be a second home tax. Instead, he listed a bunch of people who live in their homes, including ironically, District 6 Democrat Gail Brewer, who said, I've been living in my place 365 days a year since 1994 This whole list must be messed up.
Many of the homes included in the database appeared to be misaligned with a tax aimed at well-heeled residences with multimillion dollar vacation homes, including some two dozen modest homes on Chaffee Avenue in Working Class Throgs Neck in the Bronx. And those home values are not a million dollars plus. Those are like 500 grand to 800 grand.
So again, what is all of this about? It is about an intimidation tactic. It is about intimidation. That's what the whole thing is. The whole goal here is to force people to leave. This is revolution. The idea is you are not protected if you're in New York. In fact, we are going to put out your name and address. If you are famous and rich and you own a place, you either have to pay additional security and unofficial tax just to keep your home safe now, or you should sell and go. Now, that is not going to alleviate the housing problem. As we'll talk about in a second, all of the commie solutions that are being proposed by Mamdani are not about actual solutions. They're about destroying the system from within. Because if you force all these people to sell, that actually leads to a decline in the prices of the homes. And now, the decline in prices of homes sounds good at the beginning, but it turns out that when you have rent control and heavy building regulation, all that ends up happening is that no one is going to build a home ever again. Because the only way that anybody could make a profit was to build a new home. And instead, you're forcing the market down. What you are doing is removing all incentive for development. No one is going to build new houses or new apartment buildings in New York under Zohran Mamdani. I know many, many, many investors at this point who are pulling their money from New York City as we speak.