Hochul’s pied-à-terre-tax pivot shows Mamdani IS pulling her to the hard-left

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Gov. Kathy Hochul is turning sharply to the left: On Tuesday, she announced a new “pied-à-terre tax,” flatly breaking her no-new-taxes vow; this follows her embrace of a public-employee-pension giveaway that could cost taxpayers $1.5 billion a year. Far from “moderating” Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialism, she’s rushing his way. The pied-à-terre tax will slap people who own second homes in the city worth more than $5 million with a tax surcharge; the gov guesses the take from 13,000 affected

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