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The Shocking Cost of New York’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Experiment Has Finally Been Exposed 82%
By Rusty Weiss95%
7/13/2026, 8:48:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 43.6% saturation with 311 hits. Analysis detected 2,589 faulty-reasoning hits from 713 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of 82% (2,911 of 15,864 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 81.70% of the article peer group.
New York has spent years aggressively taxing its wealthiest residents in the name of fairness, and the results are now in.
Suffice it to say, they’re not pretty.
A new study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commission (CBC) reveals the state’s share of America’s millionaires has dropped sharply since 2010, triggering a nearly $11 billion shortfall in tax revenue in a single year as high earners quietly packed up and left for lower-tax states.
The analysis shows New York’s share of millionaires fell from 12.7% in 2010 to just 8.7% in 2022 — the steepest decline of any state in the country.
As a direct result, personal income tax collections in 2022 alone were roughly $10.7 billion lower than they otherwise would have been if they had maintained their share of the wealthy folks.
The study makes clear that the people leaving pay a disproportionately large share of state taxes, creating a painful hole in the budget that affects everything from public services to infrastructure funding.
Economist Jared Walczak provides numbers that back up the notion.
“In New York, the top 1% of earners pay about 45% of all state income taxes in any given year, so New York’s revenue is very reliant on high earners to stay in New York, and that has been a challenge in recent years,” he told the New York Post.
This represents tangible evidence that the "tax the rich" mantra does not yield higher revenue to subsequently spend on public services for lower-income families or improve general infrastructure.
It is actually taking money away from the state and those residents who might benefit.
Taxing the rich is a platform for the economically illiterate.
Unfortunately for the Empire State, the economically illiterate hold significant positions in government.
At both state (Governor Kathy Hochul) and city (Zohran Kwame Mamdani) levels.
Democrats aren't making the rich pay their fair share.
They're shooting themselves in the foot.
The Post suggests that Hochul (D) has been resistant to flat-out increasing the tax burden for the wealthiest New Yorkers but notes she shared the same brainstorm with Mamdani (C-ommunist) on the so-called pied-à-terre tax.
You know, the one he produced an uber-creepy video for, declaring "Happy Tax Day!"
while stalking the home of hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin.
Walczak went on to state that the general consensus is that "New York isn’t done raising taxes, and ... it won’t be surprising if high-earner taxpayers choose to relocate.”
Which, one would have to assume, would lead to billions more in lost revenue.
Presented with an opportunity to address the numbers, Mamdani did what most blue-city or blue-state politicians do—blindly doubled down on ignorance.
"The wealthiest can do a little bit more to ensure that everyone can afford to live here," he told reporters.
"And the little bit more—and we're talking about the pied-à-terre tax—it's a tax on non-resident New Yorkers' secondary homes that are worth more than $5 million.
I think that that's common sense, and most New Yorkers feel the same way."
"I look forward to continuing to advance the vision of our city."
New York ranks dead last in competitiveness, according to Tax Foundation senior state policy analyst Abir Mandel, who argues that New York’s high taxes are driving businesses and high earners to more tax-friendly states.
And he warned it may get worse.
"Without reforming the tax structure, New York won’t be competitive for attracting population and business,” he told the Post.
"Wall Street is the golden goose.
But for how long?”
Not long at all, if Mamdani has his way.
On top of the crushing tax burden, New York’s strict rent controls, soaring energy costs from aggressive green mandates, and a mountain of red tape are only making things worse.
Democrat policies are driving more people and businesses away and turning what should be a truly great economic engine into a slow-motion fiscal disaster with no end in sight.
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