Happy Tax Day

Donald J Trump

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich. pic.twitter.com/Wky2LFXC9W

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) April 15, 2026

If someone wants to buy a $5M apartment and leave it empty, that’s their property, their choice—not yours to prey on because you need more revenue for failing socialist experiments.

You’re not funding “free” child care. You’re laundering millions through the same bloated…

— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) April 15, 2026

… bureaucracy that’s already driven businesses, residents, and investment out of NYC. New York’s multi-billion deficit was caused by decades of reckless spending.

Every time you “tax the rich,” capital flees, property values drop, construction halts, jobs vanish, and the tax base shrinks. We’ve seen it in city after city. The ultra-wealthy don’t stay and pay—they leave. The middle class gets stuck with the bill. The empty luxury units you hate will stay empty longer because you made ownership toxic.

This “progressive” tax is proof that socialists like you view citizens as ATMs, not free individuals.

Keep this up and watch the last productive people and dollars flee faster than you can tweet “equity.”

Mamdani has been posting all day about how he’s so excited to tax the rich.

His families fortune of $40 million dollars largely parked in India, Uganda, and international film royalties where New York can’t touch a dollar of it.

Funny how that works.

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 15, 2026

Every single country that has ever taxed the rich has scrapped it because it made the country worse.

Every. SINGLE. One.

Ireland scrapped in 1978, Austria scrapped in 1994, Germany scrapped in 1997, Denmark scrapped in 1997, Iceland scrapped in 2006, Luxembourg scrapped in…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 16, 2026

… 2006, Finland scrapped in 2006, Sweden scrapped in 2007, France scrapped in 2018.

France’s wealth tax earned the government about $2.6 billion a year but cost the country more than $125 billion in capital flight since 1998. The government estimated that 10,000 people with 35 billion euros in assets left in 15 years for tax reasons alone.