If New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work a lifetime for – including their homes, their businesses or farms, and their savings – could be stripped away on their deathbeds.

No more Empire State; he'd make it the Expropriation State.

Only one thing in life is certain: We all die.

Mamdani is exploiting that certainty to close what he claims is a $5.4 billion city budget gap.

More than that, he aims to undermine the foundations of American life by attacking wealth accumulation, homeownership, and private property, per the radical agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Currently, New York is one of a handful of states that imposes a death tax, a 16 percent levy on estates worth more than $7 million.

But last week, the tax wish list Mamdani circulated to state legislators and Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed lowering the threshold to a mere $750,000 – which would clobber millions more New Yorkers all across the state with a punishing tax.

He would also hike the rate to a whopping 50 percent, two and a half times the next highest rate – 20 percent, charged in Hawaii and Washington state.

The worst feature of Mamdani's tax proposal is its built-in "cliff," meaning that once an........

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