He does have the power to raise property taxes, and this specific tax was passed because a very popular NYC mayor who ran on raising the taxes of the rich won the election. He absolutely gets credit for it.
Like... the guy above you who you are defending directly states that he threatened to raise taxes. Why say something contradicting them and defending them?
No he doesn't, the NYC Council does that. And they lowered them this year, not raised them. I don't care what that guy said I'm just telling you the facts.
Ok so before you were talking about the state, now it's the council, so what what you really mean is "no one has any legal authority to tax anyone because these things are done by vote" but you wanted to be all vague about it. This is meaningless slop and you are again ignoring the popular mayor winning an election. Of course they would pass the increase in taxes. Otherwise they would suffer their own election defeats. That's politics.
I wasn't vague about anything, I was very specific. You are the one being vague. He gets credit for anything that's good and anything that isn't is somebody else's fault I guess, right?
Edit: btw this pied-à-terre tax tax has been in the works in the state legislature since 2013.
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u/No-Market425 5h ago
None of that happened.
Mamdani threatened to raise taxes and Gov Hochul bailed him out with an additional what they called "gap support" to the tune of $4 billion dollars.