[NYP] Mayor Zohran Mamdani is floating an extreme new proposal to change the state’s estate tax — a move that would hurt middle-class New Yorkers and their loved ones.
The socialist mayor wants to drastically slash the estate tax exemption threshold from the $7 million limit to just $750,000, a drop of more than 90%, according to a memo City Hall recently circulated to Albany lawmakers.
The "Tax Revenue Raising Proposals" document is a wish list containing dozens of different tax hikes that could be employed to bail the Big Apple out, according to Bloomberg.
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Well, they wanted it! Eat shit and stay where you are.
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03/16/2026 10:59 Comments ||
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Probably the same clear out strategy as was used in London.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/16/2026 11:41 Comments ||
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If it's not already too late, I would advise middle class New Yorkers to sell and get the hell outta there ASAP with whatever hasn't yet been stolen from them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/16/2026 13:00 Comments ||
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At the state level? He has no power beyond city borders… and not nearly enough within its borders as he needs to accomplish his promises. On the other hand, as long as the promises got him elected, keeping them isn’t terribly important to him.
#5
Long past time to start declaring cities and states as "failed" as they are not able to survive without federal funds. Resend their statehood and sovereignty , put them back at territory status and clean out the filth. Only let them back in when they can show they can act like adults.
[Federalist] The scandal is no longer about the Biden family, but about the FBI agents and DOJ employees responsible for conspiring to thwart the investigation into the former president.
The U.S. attorney tasked in 2020 by Attorney General William Barr with vetting evidence related to the Biden family and Ukrainian corruption knew nothing about the recently revealed “Round River” FBI operation launched to neutralize all negative information and allegations of Biden family corruption.
That secret operation not only left the Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney unaware of potentially relevant information, it also buried scores of derogatory allegations about the Biden family in the FBI’s prohibited access files, preventing them from being accessed by any other FBI officials.
Early this week, news broke that FBI agents had recently discovered “the opening memo and files” for an investigation branded Round River, which targeted individuals who shared or distributed allegations against the Biden family, and was also run out of the Pittsburgh office.
According to Just the News, “The files also show the bureau may have targeted the Pittsburgh office as the launching point to impede an effort by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to ask his federal prosecution team in the same city to investigate why an FBI informant report alleging Biden family corruption was not fully investigated when it first came in.”
However, then-Attorney General Bill Barr’s request to federal prosecutors in the Western District of Pennsylvania was broader. In January 2020, Barr tapped then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady to vet evidence related to Ukrainian corruption and the Biden family. As Brady would later testify in a closed-door hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, that included information provided by Giuliani, as well as other members of the public.
As part of that investigation, Brady tasked agents with running searches in FBI databases for various terms related to the alleged Ukrainian corruption, such as “Burisma” or “Biden.” The Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney also worked with the E.D. of New York’s office to run the information against the latter office’s holdings of known sources of disinformation.
But as Brady told The Federalist, he had no idea that at the same time he was vetting information provided by Giuliani, per Barr’s directive, the Pittsburgh field office was running the Round River investigation.
Nor could Brady and his team have discovered the existence of Round River because, as reported earlier this week, that investigation was designated “prohibited access,” which rendered the files invisible to agents searching the FBI databases. The former U.S. attorney also didn’t know that any such invisible files might exist because, as The Federalist previously reported, neither Brady nor senior DOJ officials knew “the FBI’s Sentinel case management system had a stealth feature to render files invisible during search queries. Nor did anyone from FBI headquarters reference the existence of such ‘Prohibited Access’ files during discussions over access to relevant material related to Burisma and Hunter Biden.”
While Round River was technically a Pittsburgh-based investigation, prior press releases issued by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, suggest that FBI Headquarters had firm hold of the tiller. Based on whistleblowers’ statements, Grassley explained in a press release that it was alleged that “in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”
Grassley would later reveal in a subsequent press release that the Foreign Influence Task Force, or FITF, used the investigation Auten opened “to seek out CHS holdings at FBI Field Offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as foreign disinformation.” And given “that at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden,” the breadth of this conspiracy is truly shocking. Sources familiar with Round River similarly told The Federalist that the investigation sought to scuttle any investigative leads into Biden family corruption by discrediting it as Russia disinformation.
Just the New also reported that sources maintained that the conspiracy extended beyond protecting the Biden family from potential criminal charges and “expanded to look at numerous public figures who spoke out about Biden family corruption concerns.” According to those sources, “reporters, lawmakers, moviemakers and lawyers who made certain allegations or raised questions about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine may have been assessed to be national security threats aligned with Russia worthy of investigation and treated as purveyors of disinformation interfering in elections …”
If these sources are accurate, the scandal surrounding Round River is exponentially greater, for it would mean that the FBI used investigative resources to target the speech of both public figures and private Americans, including members of the press. And an even more appalling possibility exists given that during this timeframe, members of the Foreign Influence Task Force were regularly communicating with Twitter about supposed foreign disinformation, prompting the social media company to censor speech about Biden family corruption.
The scandal, however, is no longer about the Biden family, but about the FBI agents and DOJ employees responsible for conspiring to thwart the investigation into the former president and his family and to abridge the free speech rights of Americans. The breadth and depth of that conspiracy, as well as the players, remains to be seen, with the details either still classified or still hidden by virtue of prohibited access.
Yet, the days of waiting for justice may be nearing an end, as the last few months have seen FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi providing Grassley the declassified files he has been demanding for nearly a decade.
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A law enforcement program that requires 'Special Access' speaks volumes. Are there others ?
Is this what it appears to be? Probably yes. Will anything come of it? Probably no.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
