The Mayor Who Killed a Popular Tax by Trying to Shame the Rich
Mayor Mamdani had a popular tax policy and all the legal data he needed. Then he turned public tax records into a shaming list — and watched the political consensus behind progressive taxation fracture in real time. The outrage isn’t about the tax. It’s about the method, and it reveals a structural weakness: when public data becomes a weapon, the first casualty is the policy it was supposed to protect.