Comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade mocked the idea of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax on Sunday after the city published a searchable database of property owners."Well, Mamdani's going after billionaires in New York," Carvey mentioned on his "Fly on the Wall" podcast."If you have a second home in New York, he wants you to pay more tax.""Yeah.
I think it was a bit of a stumble to post online all the people that have second homes and their addresses because, you know, you can't say after he says you should protest in the streets and then say that.I would be worried if I was a guy with that," Spade said.LIBERAL PODCASTER SAYS HE WAS 'DOXED' BY MAMDANI'S 'WANTED POSTER' OF PROPERTY OWNERSMayor of New York Zohran Mamdani faced backlash for his property tax after the city released a public list of more than 900,000 properties.
(Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images)"It was a little weird, but yeah," Carvey said.The two continued to discuss Mamdani after Carvey made a mocking impression of the mayor threatening to drop a "tax bomb.""He really bombed it.But it was a lot of famous people.
It said their houses, and I was like, 'ohhh,'" Spade said, with Carvey agreeing that it was "dangerous.""I don't know.They got kids.
I don't know about that," Spade added."Just tax them," Carvey remarked.The pied-à-terre tax, endorsed by Mamdani and passed by the New York State Legislature in May, imposes an annual surcharge on certain high-value New York City homes worth more than $5 million that are not the owner's primary residence.PROPERTY OWNER ADVOCACY GROUPS PUSH BACK ON MAMDANI'S 'RENTAL RIPOFF REPORT,' PUBLIC DATABASE OF LANDLORDSNew York City enacted a tax on homes worth more than $5 million that are not the owner's main residency earlier this year.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Months later, on July 24, New York City published a list of more than 900,000 properties in a "supplemental market value roll" without explaining that the vast majo...