Mamdani Says Second-Home Levy Plan Is Key Step to Tax the Rich

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hailed a proposed annual surcharge on some owners of second homes in the city as an important step in his pledge to raise taxes on the wealthy.

“I always said that I believed in the importance of taxing the rich,” Mamdani said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press aired Sunday. “This is taxing the rich.”