A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.

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    Then they’ll say they’ll leave the country

    Which they never will. You could (and should) raise their tax rate all the way to 90% and the US system would STILL be better for enabling their excesses and protecting both their wealth and themselves than any other, since that’s what it’s been tailored specifically for since January 1981.

    I don’t want a load of freeloading companies or billionaires. If you can get rich using public stuff like roads and stuff then you should want to contribute.

    rAmen, brother/sister/other!

    I’m happy to pay taxes for the betterment of society, I just want the wealthiest to pay their fair fucking share. How radical of me.