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Abso-fucking-lutely.
Every billionaire is complicit, including your favorite billionaire: The pop star, the superstar athlete, the philanthropist, or the guru who cosplays as middle class. They’re all motherfuckers.
This is why I can’t stand to watch professional sports anymore, just some millionaire getting payed by his billionaire owner to play a game so you stay distracted by your bread and circuses.
That and a fucked up minimum wage
Mamdani making T. Swizzle pay NYC taxes was the reason he balanced the budget? I thought it’s because he negotiated with NY state for aid (which, fair game; NYC pays more in taxes than it gets back), delayed the city pension, and is finalizing a pied-à-terre tax.
What meaningful raise on Taylor Swift’s taxes has Zohran Mamdani imposed? Did she not pay taxes before? What’s the source here?
The real world is allowed to be complicated and messy, and ironically, reducing it to “hurr durr he taxed Taylor Swift” is doing a disservice to what Mamdani actually managed to work out to balance the budget – which is imperfect, but he inherited a $12 billion deficit from a grifter. It’s good for what it is.
Taylor Swift owns multiple secondary properties in New York City.
She has amassed a massive real estate footprint on a single block in Tribeca, worth an estimated $50+ million. Her holdings include:
- An 8,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at 155 Franklin Street.
- A second-floor unit in the same building purchased for nearly $10 million.
- An $18 million townhouse right next door at 153 Franklin Street.
Governor Hochul and Mayor Mamdani finalized a deal to implement a pied-à-terre tax surcharge on luxury secondary residences in NYC.
The tax starts as a 4% surcharge on the property’s value and then there is an annual charge that scales up progressively based on the assessed value.
Rhode Island passed a similar luxury second-home tax targeting non-resident estates over $1 million, a piece of legislation that the press nicknamed the “Taylor Swift Tax” due to its impact on her $17 million Watch Hill mansion.
To say that this alone is balancing the budget is an oversimplification (what are hot takes if not reductive) but the tax will have a meaningful impact because she owns a lot of property in NYC.
Careful. Hurr-durr is your voter base!
Yeah this seriously needs a source
I’m just looking for a reason to bring the plane memes back
It’s always weird cuz I donate to Charities and I also already pay taxes. How come they can’t do both?
Wtf is this take? Her net worth is $2 billion, she couldn’t have paid off the deficit if she tried
Shhhhh. Being reasonable is not what this thread is for. This thread is for misogyny
And yet, still obviously paying far, far too little in taxes.
Like all billionaires.
Well yea, I’m not a billionaire defender, but the narrative here is kinda not what happened
That’s your interpretation.
I think this person pointed out Taylor Swift because they’re largely seen as one of the ‘good’ billionaires, but all billionaires deserve criticism, including her.
I feel like this person just hates Taylor Swift
Sounds to me like they hate apologists for billionaires. And I do too.
First of all I want to point out how dumb it is that my comment had no downvotes before this person comes around and suggests I’m a “Taylor Swift apologist”. See, what we have here, folks, is the power of suggestion. All it takes to ruin someone’s image is an accusation. That’s why we have defamation laws. So, as revenge, I would like to let you know that FlashMobOfOne likes to steal chew toys from dogs and call them “little sons of bitches” then look their owners dead in the eye and say “What? That’s technically true”. Do I have to prove that? No. This is the internet. Take my word for it and downvote FlashMobOfOne. You should be ashamed of yourself for what you did to those puppies, pal.
Second of all, FlashMobOfOne, you brilliant master of deduction: in my comment I was referring to the fact that the person in that TikTok in the original post is using Taylor Swift to mean “all billionaires”, when Swift is hardly the wealthiest or most defiant of them. There’s no need to single one out, and if you do, it’s funny if you pick one that isn’t nearly as bad as the others, because it makes it look as if you have a personal problem with that one individual that is unrelated to their wealth. That’d be sort of like, say, hating the Spice Girls, “especially the black one”. Now do you get how my comment there was sardonic or are you still busy hating, and here is where I provide options, pretty blonde women that either: a) wouldn’t date you in high-school b) were more popular than you in high-school (because that is the sort of superficial teen-film level reactions that Swift tends to bring out in people)
Does everyone get it now? Has the humor been properly explained to everyone? Good. I’m going back to bed (literally) (just figured I’d point that out so no one reads into that too)
But just for the record, yes, I do listen to Swift and, no, I don’t think that makes me worse than the large collection of people here that yell about “capitalists” while using Amazon, having a Netflix subscription or watching sports on Rumble or whatever other businesses owned by people who don’t give a fuck about society. And no, I don’t like her wealth. I listen to her music, not to her shaking a bag of coins. I also don’t idolize her on the internet, because I’m not a boot licker.
And here’s another thing: Swift didn’t make her money by force. She didn’t monopolize the music industry and become the only artist who can provide vinyls, CDs and concert tickets. I don’t care how you look at it, the fact of the matter is that people give Swift money willingly. It’s literally on them. Nothing of what she sells is a basic necessity. So, again, the choice of Swift as a sort of “face of the billionaires” is such a laughably bad choice that it’s funny. That’s why the original post is funny and why my comment was too. And that’s regardless of anyone’s personal view on Swift.
Also, this: https://lemmy.world/comment/23769293
“Now, get outta here, you rascals, I mean it” - Bill Murray, SNL’s Weekend Update, 1977
To be fair, NYC has always had a balanced budget. It’s literally required by law.
Though there’s definitely been an increase of social services which is good.
Though I think it’s a misrepresentation to say that money came from taxing rich people more. The bulk of it, if I’m not much mistaken, has been from some creative accounting with the NYC pension system.
This is true, but also Adams left a huge deficit on his way out with must-pays with the sole intention of hurting Mamdani utilizing that requirement as a cudgel. It’s nothing short of impressive that he was able to stick to his values and reverse the damage at the same time.
Wait. So it’s still bologna? Who could’ve guessed?
Mamdani? oh dont you mean CIA Fake Leftist Plant Mamdani? libs falling for it again after AOC-IA
Are you paid to to be this stupid and simping for China? Xi isn’t going to fuck you.
If he’s CIA he’s the least effective agent imaginable. He’s single-handedly made running on class politics a winning strategy in new York and swayed the entire state into adopting more of that. CIA works for the oligarchs and status quo, so what good has he done them? Seems dumb
Oh no, we fell for taxing billionaires again!
