The Issue: Mayor Mamdani’s “tax the rich” antics driving billionaires’ businesses out of NYC.
Mayor Mamdani figures that big business and the rich will tolerate his hostility.
This is a false assumption (“Going . . . Zo-ing . . . Gone!” May 7).
In the post-COVID world, we see that corporations and the rich do not have to be concentrated in New York City or Chicago.
They can operate anywhere.
Ken Griffin’s Citadel abandoned Chicago for Miami, and it is doing just fine.
Chase Bank has more employees in Texas than in New York.
If they leave, who is the mayor going to tax?
The answer is: the rest of us.
Mark Seitelman
Manhattan
There is an old economics adage: The more you tax something, the less you get of it.
Mamdani thought it was funny to do a video saying he will tax rich people like Ken Griffin.
Now, Griffin and Marc Rowan say they will increase their companies’ employment down south instead of in New York.
New Yorkers aren’t laughing.
Lenny Rodin
Forest Hills
When wealthy residents and corporations begin moving jobs and money out, the city loses more than billionaires — it loses the associated tax revenue that funds public services.
At the same time, Mamdani keeps demanding expanded social programs.
Who will be left to pay for it all, Mr. Socialist?
Class warfare may win headlines and be the political darling, but it is a hideous economic strategy.
Anthony Luongo
Oceanport, NJ
Mamdani’s tax-the-rich offensive shows he is living in a vacuum.
The effect will be a loss of city services, increased taxes on the middle class and a parade of wealthy job providers like Ken Griffin marching out of the city.
It is one thing to be an ideologue, but it is quite another for the mayor to have received a first-rate education and still be unable to do math.
Jackie Biaggi
The Bronx
Mamdani wants to tax the rich, but that’s only possible if they live and work in the city.
Now, two financial titans are fighting back. Griffin and Rowan expanding in other states will cost the city millions.
Socialism never works, and that’s especially true when there are other options available to the high-tax-rated people.
Couple that with more city residents heading to other states, and his strategy could end up being a net negative.
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
At some point, the only Gothamites that Mayor Putz Jr. will have left to tax will be those unable to leave the city.
Will he then offer them a ride out of town on his free bus?
James Evans
Worcester, Mass.
The Issue: The sentencing of Emine Ozsoy’s attacker, whose 2023 subway shove left her paralyzed.
When Kamal Semrade deliberately pushed Emine Ozsoy into a moving train, he intended to kill her, as logically found by a jury (“Doomed by pure ‘evil,’ ” May 7).
Yet he only got 20 years in prison, effectively rewarding his failure to accomplish his goal.
Had he killed her, he could’ve been sentenced to life.
But Ozsoy still sits in a wheelchair, suffering physically and emotionally, which is her own life sentence.
Niles Welikson
Williston Park
Emine will spend her life paralyzed from the shoulders down and completely dependent on 24/7 care.
Semrade deserved 100 years of solitary confinement for this.
Now he will be out soon, able to push more people onto the subway tracks.
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
The sentence should’ve been: Semrade will walk out of prison the day Emine can walk again, no sooner.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
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