{"id":25317,"date":"2025-06-29T20:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25317\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T20:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T20:07:42","slug":"boca-raton-mayor-woos-nyc-capitalists-after-socialist-mamdanis-victory-better-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25317\/","title":{"rendered":"Boca Raton mayor woos NYC capitalists after socialist Mamdani’s victory: ‘Better quality of life’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give us your rich and downtrodden capitalists!<\/p>\n

Boca Raton, Fla.<\/a>, Mayor Scott Singer told The Post he\u2019s already had numerous discussions with New York city business titans about relocating to his beach city after socialist Zohran Mamdani\u2019s primary-race stunner.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is not going to be the capital of capitalism anymore,\u201d Singer predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is not going to be the capital of capitalism anymore,\u201d Singer predicted. Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve pitched them on moving their corporate headquarters. We already have financial-services firms with a strong presence here,\u201d Singer, the city\u2019s Republican mayor since 2018, said of the Big Apple business leaders he\u2019s spoken with since last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect more inbound calls. We expect to have more people coming because of high taxes [in New York] \u2014 and we\u2019re ready,\u201d he said, adding that some of the inquiries he\u2019s received have come from leaders of financial services and tech industries.<\/p>\n

Boca has no income tax or business taxes, while Mamdani said he plans <\/a>to raise both as well as property taxes on some wealthier, mostly white neighborhoods to fund his $10 billion socialist utopia.<\/p>\n

Boca has no income tax or business taxes, while Mamdani said he plans to raise both. Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

In Boca \u2014 a city of 103,000 residents and already home to many well-heeled former New Yorkers \u2014 property taxes on corporations and residents fund city services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to show you<\/a> a better quality of life,\u201d Singer said of future potential New York transplants.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be harder for people to stay in New York,\u201d he said. \u201cSocialism is a terrible idea that has failed everywhere it\u2019s been implemented.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to show you a better quality of life,\u201d Singer said of future potential New York transplants. Felix Mizioznikov \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cRaising taxes and freezing the rent is not going to solve the affordability crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Singer\u2019s office provided a list of 50 publicly traded and privately owned firms that have headquarters or major offices in Boca Raton, including: ADT, Regenerative Medical Technology Group, Office Depot, Aerospace Technologies Group, Canon and Tyco Integrated Security.<\/p>\n

Boca Raton is no longer just a haven for well-heeled retirees, he said. The median age of residents of Boca keeps dropping because of new businesses and young families moving in, Singer said.<\/p>\n

Singer\u2019s office provided a list of 50 publicly traded and privately owned firms that have headquarters or major offices in Boca Raton. Derek French\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s move to socialism is a great opportunity for Boca Raton, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to make lemons into lemonade,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n

Singer, who resided in New York in the 1990s, quipped, \u201cI\u2019m a die-hard Yankee fan \u2014 you won\u2019t miss anything!\u201d<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s move to socialism is a great opportunity for Boca Raton, he added. Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In his eyes, the Big Apple is no longer the city that progressed and thrived under the leadership of Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Boca now has the lowest property tax rate in Florida while Mamdani is proposing a new 2% tax on millionaires and higher corporate taxes and a \u201csky-high cost of living,\u201d Singer said.<\/p>\n

Boca, with miles of beaches and 49 parks, also is business-friendly with streamlined city services, while Mamdani is proposing \u201cnew socialist agencies\u201d and \u201ccity-run groceries\u201d and more bureaucracy, the Florida mayor said.<\/p>\n

Boca now has the lowest property tax rate in Florida while Mamdani is proposing a new 2% tax on millionaires. Venu \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Singer said his city has \u201cbalanced growth\u201d with beaches, sunshine and safety while NYC faces \u201cforced rent freezes, 200,000-government built apartments\u201d and less private investment.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, during an interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet The Press\u201d<\/a> on Sunday, defended his grandiose tax and spending proposals \u2014 including free buses, city-run grocery stories, housing expansion and freezing rents \u2014 as attacking the affordability crisis, not accelerating it.<\/p>\n

He also said, \u201cI don\u2019t think we should have billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boca also is business-friendly with streamlined city services, while Mamdani is proposing \u201cnew socialist agencies\u201d and \u201ccity-run groceries.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n

Mamdani said wealthy New Yorkers are leaving because of quality-of-life concerns, not because of having to pay higher taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when they do leave, it\u2019s actually to other states considered high-tax: New Jersey, California,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I want to increase these taxes on the top 1%, the most profitable corporations, is to increase the quality of life for everyone, including those who are going to be taxed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Attacking the high cost of living will help employers attract and retain workers, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Give us your rich and downtrodden capitalists! Boca Raton, Fla., Mayor Scott Singer told The Post he\u2019s already…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,16968,723,5705,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,9423,10452,618,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-25317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-capitalism","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-mayors","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-property-taxes","22":"tag-socialism","23":"tag-taxes","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-us-news","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114768461397572728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}