(We apologize for the atrocious pun in the title.)
Regular readers know that Mayor Mamdani has been attempting to roll out a pied-à-terre tax, including doxxing every person who might be subject to that tax. That is a tax on second homes — meaning not your primary residence — that happen to be in New York City. That makes the doxxing particularly heinous because basically it is telling every criminal in the city ‘these are homes where the homeowner usually isn’t around.’ Once again, we see clear and convincing evidence that the leadership of the Democratic party is objectively pro-criminal.
In any case, it seems that the tax has ‘pied’ the bed:
...Mamdani's improvisational administration is producing an abundance of litigation and an absence of progress.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) September 29, 2026
(We once again apologize for the quality of our puns.)
Professor Turley’s post links to a paywalled article. But Politico has the same story, but not paywalled:
Mayor Mamdani’s administration must redo its rollout of the pied-à-terre tax, a Staten Island judge ruled.https://t.co/mWjmDTbtuO
— POLITICO (@politico) September 29, 2026
Still, we are sorry to report that the judge didn’t strike the entire tax down, shouting ‘taxation is theft!’ Instead, the Court merely said that they were not rolling it out properly:
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration must redo its rollout of the pied-à-terre tax, a Staten Island judge ruled Tuesday.
The decision from Judge Wayne Ozzi sides with New York City homeowners challenging Mamdani’s rollout of the surcharge, which applies to second homes in the city worth more than $5 million. The lawsuit, filed last month, alleges the administration did not perform sufficient due diligence before sending letters to some 17,000 homeowners and separately took issue with a public list of some 900,000 homes that could fall under the tax.
Under Ozzi’s order, the city must mail out new notices ‘in compliance with the intent of the law.’ The notices that have gone out thus far are essentially voided. The ruling also eliminates the city’s exemption process, which Ozzi holds as ‘unlawful burden shifting.’
‘Any time constraints imposed by this new legislation do not permit respondents to take shortcuts in implementing the law [in] a manner which violates petitioners’ (and all others who received the Mailed Notices) due process rights,’ the ruling states.
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Of course, the commie mayor’s spokescretin was unhappy:
City Hall plans to invoke a stay of the injunction later this evening, according to the mayor’s office.
‘Today’s decision is wrong,’ mayoral spokesperson Matt Rauschenbach said in a statement. ‘With a stay, we will continue implementing the surcharge fairly, efficiently and in full compliance with the law, as we have since day one.’
He described the surcharge as being about ‘a basic principle of fairness.’
‘If you can afford a luxury second home in New York City, you can afford to pay your fair share for the schools, streets and parks that make this city work,’ he continued. ‘The ultra-wealthy are fighting in court to avoid paying their fair share. They have filed lawsuit after lawsuit to protect their privilege, and we will not back down.’
Yes, yes, it's always supposedly about paying for streets and schools, but the reality is with these commies is it really goes to pay for their luxuries. For instance, NYC spends over $40,000 a year, per student, on education:
— Sandy Cee (@SandyCee510864) August 30, 2025
By comparison, Wakefield School, a top-rated secular private school in Northern Virginia ranges from $22-$37,000, depending on what grade your child is in (religious private schools are often cheaper because an associated church helps with the costs). So it's not really the amount of the money that is the problem.
On to reactions:
@Grok What is the definition of pied-a-terre tax?
— Janny (@jannykmak) September 29, 2026
We highlight this person not even knowing what the term means, because we think using the more obscure term rather than just ‘second home tax’ is part the plan. It goes to the old maxim that taxation is the art of plucking the goose with the least amount of squawking. It's hard to get people to complain about a policy if no one even knows what it is.
What happened to Mamdani's grocery stores, by the way? Haven't heard anything about them lately.
— A Cerbic (@a_cerbic) September 29, 2026
Last we heard, he was still working on that, but we would wonder if antitrust law has anything to say about that.
Pilot light is brilliant!!
— Clementine (@michaelbrownse5) September 29, 2026
It brings back memories of living in Connecticut one winter and having the pilot light blow out in our furnace, so that the heater was blowing around cold air from the furnace’s chimney instead of warm air, at about 4:00 in the morning. But that is very much just us.
Randy Mastro remains the Socialism Slayer. Probably the best litigator
— Paul Mauro (@PaulDMauro) September 29, 2026
in the country. https://t.co/0faZyh6yFV
Commie Mamdani being stopped https://t.co/8m3y3xfglK
— Bartemy Jones (@BartemyS) September 29, 2026
Or at least slowed down.
When Steve Wynn and Wilbur Ross cast themselves as sympathetic figures over paying their fair share on multimillion-dollar second, third, fourth or fifth homes, they make the case for the pied-à-terre tax better than we ever could. https://t.co/lUIHXKrwPo
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) September 29, 2026
*eye roll*
Simply stop taxing, and confiscate the property. The judge gets a visit from since gentlemen and never makes another similar ruling.
— Phillip H. Briggs (@thebaldtexican) September 29, 2026
This 'is' the endgame for the communists, right? Seizing the property of others and giving it to their poors followers. https://t.co/tL8TdXbizG
We detect sarcasm.
Mmmmmmmm, forum shop-ping on Stat-en Is-land… https://t.co/FwBMWMogrA pic.twitter.com/NYS0SIMTll
— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) September 29, 2026
We are pretty sure that they wouldn’t be able to bring the suit there, unless some of the people impacted lived there.
Oh no...Now Zohran's gonna have to make a whole new TikTok video for the new campaign. Wonder whose house he'll stand outside this time.😁
— NewzHawk (@TheRealNewzHawk) September 29, 2026
These idiots who think this clown is going to do ANYTHING he says is in for a rude awakening. He'll go down as the worst mayor, trust me. Worst than DiBlasio.
— Alan (@official_laozi) September 29, 2026
Finally:
too French for my taste...
— John Sullivan (@realJohnSullivn) September 29, 2026
Heh. It's the same energy as this:
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) September 29, 2026
More seriously, we are reminded of how Thomas Jefferson, who was famously a Francophile, once argued that as a rule the worst, most oppressive elements of English law were in French, while the best was typically in English. That lines up with what we know of English history, starting with William the Conqueror.
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