Moderate NY Rep. Tom Suozzi wants to hike taxes on the rich but he still disagrees with Mamdani
He wants to have his cake and tax it too.Self-stylized anti-socialist moderate Long Island Rep.Tom Suozzi wants to hike taxes on the wealthy — but he still doesn’t agree with city mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s philosophy.Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat, is against raising taxes in New York and instead wants to hike the federal income tax hikes for people making $400,000 or more a year.“We should raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans at the federal level, not at the state or city level,” he told The Post in a statement Wednesday.
“Taxes are already too high in New York and people are leaving.”Additional revenue raised from the fees should be returned to the state and used “specifically for local tax relief,” he said.“New York sends far more tax dollars to Washington than it gets back, even as families and businesses struggle under some of the highest tax burdens in the nation,” said Suozzi, who had backed former Gov.Andrew Cuomo over Mamdani in the mayoral race.
“We should bring that money home to reduce the burden on New Yorkers and keep people from leaving our state,” he added.Those comments followed a WNYC Radio appearance where Suozzi first floated the plan in response to host Brian Lehrer asking if the congressman agreed with Mamdani’s plan to raise the city income tax on millionaires by 2 percentage points.“I’d like a 2.6 percent increase on the wealthiest Americans at the federal level.I’d like to see a 2 percent increase — a 2.6 percent increase actually — on high wealth individuals, people making about $400,000 a year at the federal level,” Suozzi said.Republicans pounced, saying Suozzi’s tax hike proposal will be a campaign issue next year in the race for the House District 3 seat that includes parts of Nassau County and Queens.“Two-Faced Tom Suozzi finally said the quiet part out loud: He wants you to pay higher taxes.
Suozzi is hopelessly out of touch and soon to be out of a job,” National Republican Congre...