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Zohran Mamdani should propose an exit tax on the rich

They're threatening New York City with capital flight, and we can't let them win.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 20, 2025
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“It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city’s tax base,” billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said to the Free Press on Wednesday. And he’s right.

A small but obscenely wealthy faction of New Yorkers are threatening to leave the city if Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candid…

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