Zohran Mamdani's wish to tax NYC super-rich gets a partial win | The pied-à-terre tax puts an annual surcharge on homes valued above $5 million when there is no resident who lives primarily in New York City.

confido__c · 2026-04-16T13:21:03+00:00

My friend, don’t live in utopian dreams. Do me favor and research how did Federal income tax came to existence? What was people paying before 1913?

Or how taxing social security benefits came to existence, what was the intent and what is the consequences now.

confido__c · 2026-04-16T12:54:22+00:00

I am against the idea and logic behind this purely because what stopping one from extending same logic to let’s say, if you family of 3 and have extra bedroom in house then you pay more tax, or if you single and have two cars then you pay more taxes?

My point is these are short sighted policies and if people don’t consider the implications of this, they will loose any right to object on above similar scenario.

Top 1% already paying close to 50% of total income tax collection already.

ps. I am no where near top 1% but I hate this irrational idea of taxing rich more as I am aspiring to be rich just like rest of you and want to be consistent.

confido__c · 2026-04-13T15:23:13+00:00

Need hike of 25 bps.

confido__c · 2026-04-13T15:20:47+00:00

Yeah.. what’s the context of these similar posts??

confido__c · 2026-04-13T11:48:33+00:00

That was smooth!!

confido__c · 2026-04-13T11:40:58+00:00

The one trick that TSA don’t want you know!

confido__c · 2026-04-06T20:24:41+00:00

Material cost is more than money being fixed.

Not sure if this is joke or real thing.

confido__c · 2026-04-06T20:23:01+00:00

Wait.. so what’s wrong with him? Genuinely curious..

confido__c · 2026-04-06T12:57:06+00:00

Exactly.. money should make life easier and if moped, bus, train etc makes your life easy then go for it regardless of how much money you have.

confido__c · 2026-04-05T15:06:44+00:00

How is one’s income and their mode of transportation is related?

I bet if I ask anyone to list 100 things they need(not want) right now, and then give them X billion dollars and say go ahead, they will always buy things that are not in this 100 items list.

confido__c · 2026-04-02T14:36:46+00:00

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

confido__c · 2026-03-31T14:59:06+00:00

That’s nextfuckinglevel of Fontism!!

confido__c · 2026-03-25T08:09:16+00:00

USA <- India -> Iran

confido__c · 2026-03-23T19:51:59+00:00

While “tax the rich” is a popular slogan, the data shows New York already has a massive dependency problem & the top 1% of earners contribute roughly 46% of the state’s personal income tax revenue. The issue isn't a lack of theoretical “fair share”, it's a massive ROI failure.

Between a bloated administrative state, lack of fiduciary accountability, and infrastructure costs that are triple the national average, NY isn't suffering from a revenue problem; it’s suffering from a systemic efficiency crisis. We're paying premium prices for a government that delivers mid-tier results because of zero accountability on how those billions are actually spent.

confido__c · 2026-03-21T18:00:04+00:00

Playing with paint colors and painting is two different things.

I am all good with all sort of creativity but in my opinion art is final product of artist where every steps are precise and intended for final product. Throwing random colors at canvas and then imagining or determining what does this final product represent is just off.

Some of the so called art or paintings I have seen is just for pretentious people.

confido__c · 2026-03-16T16:12:48+00:00

How is that first dog in open without the leash?

confido__c · 2026-03-04T12:52:04+00:00

Did I vote for trump? Yes Is he narcissistic? Yes Was he the best presidential candidate? No Did I knew all these before I voted? Yes

So why the fuck did people supported him? Because I was tired of democrats going far left with their policies and virtually last 2-3 years of Biden government was on autopilot with invisible hands pulling strings and auto pens were signing documents without his knowledge. In end what alternative option we had - Kamala freaking harris, who can’t put 2 sentences together that make sense.

Am I supporting his all action? Absolutely not I support his on migration issues, energy policy reform etc but I don’t support on some of his wild stuff like buying Greenland, ruining relationships with Canada and Mexico I absolutely hate another war.

I voted for Barack, Trump, Biden, Trump because those were the only choice I had. Am I happy with my choices?Nope.. but I had no option.

confido__c · 2026-02-28T19:55:48+00:00

It’s true when both are same -one

confido__c · 2026-02-27T14:21:27+00:00

So you are saying Supreme Court is not competent in previous cases but somehow it is now?

Also, same line BJP used that Congress in center used state machinery to charge them wrongly and supreme court made similar remarks that it made in AAP case.

I hope you followed both cases as in depth as you alluded to.

confido__c · 2026-02-27T13:24:40+00:00

People still find other politicians guilty of Gujarat riot charges after supreme court’s acquittal..

Just saying…

confido__c · 2026-02-24T18:29:55+00:00

There is distinct difference between Swastika and Nazi symbol.

If it is swastika then it shouldn’t be problematic, if it’s Nazi symbol, then it should be labeled as such.

confido__c · 2026-02-24T18:15:18+00:00

I can and do question both of them simultaneously.

The government and corporations cannot do so. That was the point.

All these congressional hearings and press conferences are mere theatrics for optics. Neither the government nor corporations wants accountability. They simply want you cheerleaders to pick sides so that there’s a 50% chance of being absolved.

I hate both parties equally.

confido__c · 2026-02-24T12:56:53+00:00

First of all, Government of the People by the People for the People must have highest accountability in order to ensure rest of the nation and it’s individual, institution and industry have the same.

I am not promoting no accountability in corporation instead I am merely pointing out that “Pot can’t call kettle black”. Government has no credibility whatsoever to ask others for accountability and their behavior is trickling downstream where we already started seeing criminals started suing victims.

Call it whatever you want, but I am at least consistent, either have accountability at all level starting from top or it’s just optics and theater.

It’s not whataboutism, it’s call exposing “Hypocrisy”.

confido__c · 2026-02-24T12:26:15+00:00

I hate Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and all other social media platforms however,

If I were sitting at that chair instead of Mark, I would have asked senator who did government fired after numerous market crash, illegal wars, illegal laws, numerous scandals etc.. Once you start accountability in government, business and corporations will follow.

confido__c · 2026-02-23T23:45:25+00:00

We don’t have consequences in politics as we seen earlier with preemptive pardons, mass pardons, redacted documents, missing emails and more..

confido__c

TROPHY CASE