Even with Gov. Kathy Hochul vowing to avoid any tax hikes (before the November election, anyway), the Legislature’s leaders and hard lefties are determined to try. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins both plan to put tax-the-rich “revenue raisers” in their one-house budgets , roughly approximating Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s calls for higher top income-tax rates as well as increased levies on corporations; we expect they’ll want statewide hikes since