Among his other big plans for turning New York into the heavenly city of the saints, or the Big Rock Candy Mountain, or El Dorado on the Hudson, Zohran Mamdani intends to tax “richer and whiter neighborhoods.” Victor Davis Hanson has been looking into the data on all those rich white people Mamdani is so eager to squeeze, and on his news show has presented a useful corrective to Mamdani’s assumptions. More of Hanson on Mamdani can be found here: “Victor Davis Hanson Found Another Big Flaw With Mamdani’s ‘Whiter Neighborhoods’ Tax Plan,” by Hailey Gomez, Daily Caller, July 2, 2025:
On his show Tuesday, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson called out Democrat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax “whiter neighborhoods,” arguing that white people aren’t the majority of wealthy earners in the U.S.
As Mamdani’s potential plans for New York City come under the media spotlight, his campaign proposal to raise taxes on wealthier neighborhoods — including “richer and whiter” areas — has drawn repeated criticism. While discussing the candidate’s background on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson said Mamdani comes from a “very wealthy” background.
“We were just talking about entitled people. He goes to Bowdoin College. His dad is a professor of Middle East Studies. His mother’s a filmmaker. He’s very wealthy. He was pampered. He kind of lounged around after college, and then he says he’s going to go after the more affluent and whiter. No, no, no, no, no, Mr. Mamdani. I want to tell you something,” Hanson said….
Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a renowned postcolonial scholar of Gujarati Shia Muslim background who teaches at Columbia University, while his mother Mira Nair is a well-known Indian‑American filmmaker. After relocating to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Mamdani attended the Bank Street School, a prestigious private school that costs around $66,000 today, according to Mint.
Since earning his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in Maine, reports show Mamdani’s current net worth sits at $200,000, and he lives in a $2,250 a month rent-stabilized Astoria apartment, Mint reported. Mamdani additionally acquired four acres of land in Jinja, Uganda, which is reportedly valued between $150,000 and $250,000, according to the outlet.
If just the land Mamdani owns in Uganda could be worth $250,000, then how is it that his current net worth is $200,000? He has yet to reveal the cash in his bank accounts. How much does he have in those?
According to Mamdani’s tax proposal, if elected, he would seek to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods,” according to his campaign website. His plan to “fix” the issue would involve “pushing class assessment percentages down for everyone and adjusting rates up.”
“So when you say you’re going to go after whiter neighborhoods, you should just say we’re going to go after wealthier people and Asians, because that’s what the data says if you’re going to be a racist about it. But you had to put in that little thing as a little appeal. He’s losing the black vote, and he’s losing the Hispanic vote, and that’s going to go to Eric Adams,” Hanson said….
Nationwide, however, the median income for Indian American households reached $145,000 in 2022, surpassing Asian Americans overall, who hit $100,000, according to the Pew Research Center. Additionally, white families were estimated in 2022 to have a $77,250 median household income in the U.S., according to LendingTree.
Perhaps, in light of this information, Zohran Mamdani will consider taxing those richer, Indian — even Gujarati Muslim —neighborhoods in New York City.
And I have two questions for Zohran Mamdani. First, could you disclose all of your assets, including any cash in bank accounts that so far you have not disclosed? Second, as a New York State Assemblyman, your annual salary is $142,500, and you have other money coming in. Given that, shouldn’t you move out of your rent-stabilized apartment, and free it up for someone who really needs it?
somehistory says
The stupid goon’s mother had a home there worth millions. Like all mozzie scum, he’s after normal people and if he stomps on them, no matter; because to complain makes one a ‘phobic,’….which as yet, is not a crime.
When I was a child and someone bragged about what he would do, the phrase in response was, “You’ll do wonders and eat rotten cucumbers.”
And that’s this mozzie goon….all about him is rotten.
tgusa says
“You’ll do wonders and eat rotten cucumbers.”
Never heard that one before. I have encountered people that bragged about what they would do. I would never comment to them and think to myself, sure you will. People that do that are untrustworthy or unstable or both.
del says
good version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4xEZ3KquJM&list=RDj4xEZ3KquJM&start_radio=1
Ron says
Typical communist tyrant. I guess he thinks he is Robin Hood?!? Steal from the rich and give to the poor. Only in this case it’s quite clear he intends to give to the Moose Lumbs. He has already announced he wants a total sandhumper city council.
On this day of all , July 4th all true Americans should recognize what took place in and throughout the American Revolution.
FIGHT FIGHT AND FIGHT SOME MORE. And send these bags of goat shit OUT of OUR Country.THEIR ONLY DESIRE IS TO TAKE OVER. Fuck them and their hala meat too!
Nabil Bissada says
DEMOCRACY HAS BROUGHT HITLER AND ALL THE DICTATORS OF THE WORLD
“ZOHRAN MAMDANI”, it’s the first step that his ideology and beliefs that begin the invasion of the US from the inside.
How can the constitution allow someone from a different culture, religion, or base of his belief as a Muslim according to the Koran and sharia law is to kill anyone who doesn’t believe in Islam. The same as ISIS, BOCO HARAM, HAMAS, etcetera. And to run for mayor after 7 yrs and grant him American citizenship.
What is his qualification and what does he know about N.Y? The world invests more than 95% of their money into the NYSE.
If they were to hire someone of principal from a school, it would require more than 20 yrs of experience and a master’s degree
To have American citizenship is not enough to be a candidate
If the candidate is not a migrant from the western countries of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand/
His parents and his family must be American citizens for at least 100 years. And his loyalty for the USA must come before Muslims, the Koran and sharia law.
To allow this candidate by to qualify for mayor is not a democracy, human rights or freedom of speech and religion.
It’s a crime against the millions of Americans who are living for more than 500 years.
And against the millions of troops who fight and die to keep the USA great and the leader of the world.
IN THE BOOK “MY STRUGGLE”, FOR HITLER, THE NAZIS CANNOT OWN IT, THEY CANNOT RUN FOR ANY POLITICAL POSITION.
THE BOOK OF THE KORAN AND SHARIA LAW IS WHAT “ZOHRAN MAMDANI “BELIEVES AND IS MORE DANGEROUS AND WORSE THAN THE BOOK “MY SRUGGLE” FOR HITLER.
HOW ZOHRAN MAMDANI CAN BE AN AMERICAN CITZEN AND HIS BELIEFS ARE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION?
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“BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND ISLAM, I HAVE ISLAMOPHOBIOA”
WHEN YOU HAVE TO SHOOT, SHOOT, DON’T TALK (MOVIE THE GOOD, BAD…)
“NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS BUT ALL TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS.”
“EVERY MUSLIMS IS A TIMING BOMB”
“WE MUST HAVE A NEW DEDINITION FOR DEMOCRACY, HUNMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND SPEECH WHO ARE USING BY THE MUSLIMS THE SOLDIERS OF ALLAH”
“OUR ENEMIES IN U.S.A. ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN OUR ENEMIES OUT OF U.S.A.”
“THE MUSLIMS SAME AS A RAT THEY SHOW UP ONLY WHEN IT IS SAFE AND AWAY FROM ANY TRAP TO CATCH THEM.”
Nabil Bissada says
DEMOCRACY HAS BROUGHT HITLER AND ALL THE DICTATORS OF THE WORLD
“ZOHRAN MAMDANI”, it’s the first step that his ideology and beliefs that begin the invasion of the US from the inside.
How can the constitution allow someone from a different culture, religion, or base of his belief as a Muslim according to the Koran and sharia law is to kill anyone who doesn’t believe in Islam. The same as ISIS, BOCO HARAM, HAMAS, etcetera. And to run for mayor after 7 yrs and grant him American citizenship.
What is his qualification and what does he know about N.Y? The world invests more than 95% of their money into the NYSE.
If they were to hire someone of principal from a school, it would require more than 20 yrs of experience and a master’s degree
To have American citizenship is not enough to be a candidate
If the candidate is not a migrant from the western countries of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand/
His parents and his family must be American citizens for at least 100 years. And his loyalty for the USA must come before Muslims, the Koran and sharia law.
To allow this candidate by to qualify for mayor is not a democracy, human rights or freedom of speech and religion.
It’s a crime against the millions of Americans who are living for more than 500 years.
And against the millions of troops who fight and die to keep the USA great and the leader of the world.
IN THE BOOK “MY STRUGGLE”, FOR HITLER, THE NAZIS CANNOT OWN IT, THEY CANNOT RUN FOR ANY POLITICAL POSITION.
THE BOOK OF THE KORAN AND SHARIA LAW IS WHAT “ZOHRAN MAMDANI “BELIEVES AND IS MORE DANGEROUS AND WORSE THAN THE BOOK “MY SRUGGLE” FOR HITLER.
HOW ZOHRAN MAMDANI CAN BE AN AMERICAN CITZEN AND HIS BELIEFS ARE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION?
========================
“BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND ISLAM, I HAVE ISLAMOPHOBIOA”
WHEN YOU HAVE TO SHOOT, SHOOT, DON’T TALK (MOVIE THE GOOD, BAD…)
“NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS BUT ALL TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS.”
“EVERY MUSLIMS IS A TIMING BOMB”
“WE MUST HAVE A NEW DEDINITION FOR DEMOCRACY, HUNMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND SPEECH WHO ARE USING BY THE MUSLIMS THE SOLDIERS OF ALLAH”
“OUR ENEMIES IN U.S.A. ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN OUR ENEMIES OUT OF U.S.A.”
“THE MUSLIMS SAME AS A RAT THEY SHOW UP ONLY WHEN IT IS SAFE AND AWAY FROM ANY TRAP TO CATCH THEM.”
gravenimage says
Nabil, why are you pushing the idea that it is democracy that created dictatorship? This is just mistaken.
rick says
CAIR is holding Mamdani’s secret wealth in a non interest ( Muslims do not like interest bearing. Too Jewish, they say) secret account. Besides, they like to be funded in 6 and 7 figures by Western Governments and is taxpayer money.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I believe that the Daily Caller got this wrong. Gujarati muslims are not shi’a: the period in history that that place had a sultanate, it was a sunni sultanate. The main shi’a places in India are Hyderabad, Lucknow and Murshidabad (in Bengal). I suspect that either his father converted at some point in time, if he indeed is shi’a, or Comrade Zohran himself converted. I suspect it’s the latter
As far as his own lavish holdings go, it reminds me of something Andrew Wilkow said: “Socialism is only for the plebs, it’s not for the socialists”. Incidentally, as I pointed out yesterday, he’s a full blown Marxist, not a socialist. I don’t think there are any socialists still existing today
Rick Gordon says
I wish I had the U-Haul franchise for NYC!
tgusa says
His racism against White Americans extends much further than just the richer and Whiter neighborhoods.All the while he himself looks white. He is by far Whiter than this White American. I have read that American Blacks are pissed that he claimed to be Black on an application for college or something. I also read that he has claimed to be Asian for some reason or another. It seems he is not popular with Latino Americans as well. So who are his supporters? Could they be these?
https://instapundit.com/730209/#disqus_thread
We would expect racists to join with racists. That works well if all of the groups are racially, ethnically, culturally, monetarily, locality…..segregated. But whatever you do dont put them all in the same room unless you are looking for trouble.
James Lincoln says
“It’s up to you New York, New York.”
Keys says
Yes – “Start spreadin’ the news!”
gravenimage says
+1
OLD GUY says
And the research facts that it is the hard working white peoples fault that everything in America is bad? How about some research on the fact that the hard working white people have contributed and died for all of our freedom and success as a people across America.
We all should be working to contribute to the success of America instead of fighting over religion, skin color or economic equality. If you think socialism or communism makes everyone equal you’re NUTS.
Could Capitalism be more fare sure, but it is way better than anything else out there.
gravenimage says
Mamdani’s Plan to Tax ‘Richer and Whiter Neighborhoods’
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Jizya…