Taylor Swift is enemy No.1 to cash-grabbing Democrats in Rhode Island. They've named their new statewide vacation home property tax after her.

But from the East Coast to the West Coast, "tax the rich" is the battle cry of radical-left Democrats. They claim that by attacking the rich, including celebs like Swift, they're saving democracy. Don't be fooled.

Their new forms of taxation — including wealth taxes, mansion taxes and pied-a-terre taxes — are fueled by jealousy and hatred for our free-market system, working people and everything American. You're their next target.

You may not consider yourself "rich," but these new forms of taxation will eventually hit you if you live in a blue state.

Swift paid a whopping $17.75 million for her Watch Hill, Rhode Island, pad back in 2013. But the tax starts on any vacation home worth over $1-million and occupied less than half the year. It went into effect at the end of July.

"Tax the rich" is also building steam in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and California.

The official magazine of the Democratic Socialists of America announces that the fight to tax the rich will go on until "there is not a single state that is a safe haven."

Connecticut Democrats are ramming through a "mansion" tax, the first-ever statewide property tax, which will be levied annually on homes valued at over $3-million, whether they're primary residences or........

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