“Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not included,” Sen. Liz Warren smugly captioned a photo of her sitdown with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Lina Khan: What a great message to send to Gotham’s business community, and to any companies that had been thinking of coming here.
Of course, that signal already got sent when Mamdani tapped Khan, the former Federal Trade Commission chief famed for warring on companies simply because they’re successful, for his transition team.
Yes, Khan and the rest of the Trotskyite trio insist they’re not anti-business, but their consensus that the existence of billionaires is one of America’s biggest problems says otherwise…