#rick scott

Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Republicans are lashing out at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he announced the city had taken a significant step forward in securing millions in taxes owed by the city’s ultrawealthy residents. Mamdani said on Thursday that notices had been sent out informing owners of second homes worth $5 million or more that the pied-à-terre tax put in place by the state’s Democrats is coming soon. Under current law, the properties are undertaxed, and plans are to apply the money that will be raised to help address New York’s budget deficit. “The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That’s only possible when we all pay our fair share,” Mamdani wrote.

An April estimate from the New York City comptroller analyzed the tax and found that it could provide as much as $510 million annually if fully implemented.

Despite the help the money could provide to the city, and the fact of it coming from extremely wealthy residents who can easily afford the additional cost, Republicans reacted angrily to Mamdani’s statement. Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah accused Mamdani of seeing voters’ money as a “slush fund” (very few residents will be affected by the law), said the mayor “loves Karl Marx,” and even whined about him using “French words like ‘pied-à-terre’ to disguise new, confiscatory taxes he wants to impose to redistribute wealth.”

[...] Republicans arguing against a tax that will affect only a very small portion of the public yet benefit the majority also echoes the themes of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” they passed last year in Congress. That legislation keeps taxes for the ultrarich low while cutting funding for vital programs meant to assist the middle and working class, like Medicaid.

The billionaire class wants to turn you into feudal serfs, literal peasants.

Rick Scott: Americans should work seven days a week, at least.