{"id":430989,"date":"2025-12-07T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:57:15","slug":"pataki-kathy-hochul-will-drive-away-new-yorkers-if-she-supports-mamdanis-corporate-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430989\/","title":{"rendered":"Pataki: Kathy Hochul will drive away New Yorkers if she supports Mamdani’s corporate tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tax hikes being considered by Gov. Kathy Hochul <\/a>and other moderate Democrats to satisfy NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and\u00a0his radical comrades will cause a mass exodus of New Yorkers if implemented, according to former Gov. George Pataki.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bad enough the way things are now. If [Hochul] goes ahead and raises taxes on New Yorkers again, I think there comes a point where it becomes the straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back,\u201d the Republican told billionaire WABC-AM radio owner John Catsimatidis on his \u201cCats Roundtable\u201d show set to air Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York just can\u2019t afford this,\u201d the ex-governor added, according to excerpts of the interview provided to The Post.<\/p>\n

Tax hikes being considered by Gov. Kathy Hochul and other moderate Democrats to satisfy NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and\u00a0his radical supporters\u00a0would cause a mass exodus of New Yorkers, ex-Gov. George Pataki charged. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have taxes that are already too high. Regulations that are too severe \u2026 New Yorkers have been leaving New York in droves for places like Florida and Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul, once a staunch opponent of raising corporate tax rates, is no longer ruling the idea out to help balance the state\u2019s budget following the silver-spoon socialist\u2019s win in last month\u2019s mayoral election.<\/p>\n

The potential flip-flop for a governor with a history of them comes as she continues to be taunted in public with chants to \u201ctax the rich\u201d from liberals looking to push her in line with Mamdani, who wants at least $9 billion in extra dough to fund pie-in-the-sky initiatives like free buses.<\/p>\n

Pataki blamed Hochul and other moderate Democrats\u2019 change on the heart regarding tax hikes on the threat of the far-left coming for their jobs.<\/p>\n

Mamdani wants at least $9 billion in extra dough to fund pie-in-the-sky initiatives like free buses. Andrew Schwartz\/SIPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Hochul, once a staunch opponent of raising corporate tax rates, is no longer ruling the idea out to help balance the state\u2019s budget following Mamdani\u2019s win in last month\u2019s mayoral election. Michael Brochstein\/ZUMA Press Wire \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019re looking at Mamdani\u2019s victory and thinking, \u2018Oh my God! I could have a primary. So we\u2019d better raise taxes,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMamdani wants to raise taxes, and I\u2019m afraid that Hochul and the Legislature are going to go along with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul spokesperson Kara Cumoletti said Hochul \u201chas been clear that she hopes to avoid raising any taxes,\u201d adding Pataki \u201cshould know better than most that you can\u2019t plan a state budget without knowing what cuts to Medicaid \u2026 and other programs will come from Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Governor Pataki wants to help prevent tax increases, he should urge Washington Republicans to stop targeting New York with devastating cuts,\u201d said Cumoletti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tax hikes being considered by Gov. Kathy Hochul and other moderate Democrats to satisfy NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,171918,7033,175791,24589,5371,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,113910,5301],"class_list":["post-430989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-corporate-taxes","tag-democrats","tag-george-pataki","tag-john-catsimatidis","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-wabc","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115678402510816447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430989","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=430989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}