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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax wealthy residents’ second homes has elicited a highly emotional response from two of the city’s richest. https://cnn.it/3Pqr6mE

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Calling “Tax the Rich” a form of hate speech on par with racial slurs is not a serious or coherent comparison. It collapses two fundamentally different things--criticism of a wealth class versus dehumanization of a protected group--and treats them as if they carry the same moral weight. They don’t.

He should be thankful people are only pushing for taxing the rich. The French Revolution showed us what people are capable of when they are fed up with being robbed by the rich.

😹😹😹😹😹😹 sorry, I'm a history nut and the French Revolution was one of my favorite things era. Let go of the rope! Thud. Splat. Drip.

Well then I think they should test that and say the racial slurs. If they really believe that, they should stand on principle and say whatever slurs they're thinking of - and you should print those slurs in quotes. I hope you don't think you're clever with this "I didn't say it - my interviewee did"

I bet he’d really like Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

You are starving us and robbing us and rigging our politicial system to make it all legal and we shouldn't hate you? Read your history before you become its next chapter.

It is a good thing for the CEO of the company that owns half of Midtown Manhattan to expound on the theme of not wanting to pay taxes. Let him keep talking. He should quote Leona Helmsley, who owned the other half of Midtown: "Only little people pay taxes."

“I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich’ when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs...’” this is like when boomers likened "ok boomer" to the n-word. we live in a different reality than these fuckheads.

CNN perpetrating the fact that every mainstream media in the US is an oligarch propaganda machine from those "lower billionaires" to the "Musk" of these world ..not Too surprising considering its owner

Wait until he hears my slogan… it’s comprised of “guillotine” “we” “the rich” “should” today” and “the”. Just not in that order. Big money brains may figure it out.

OK CNN. Next time one of your reporters talks to one of these guys who says taxation is a slur, the proper response is to push back not just accept what they said. The way you push back: “No, because race is an innate & immutable trait, whereas wealth is an acquired characteristic that you control.”

Puh-lease. Give me a break. Billionaires using the resources and infrastructure of cities without paying their fair share for it is the problem. They've gotten away with it for so long they believe it's an entitlement for them. It's not. Tax them.

Good baiting article to get us on a list by the Trump regime. I think the vast majority of Americans would rather take everything from these people than hear them gripe about how hard they supposedly have it.