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The Rubin Report

Liberals Outraged as Zohran Mamdani Reveals Massive Tax Increase

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News, News Commentary

4.4486 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposed 9.5% property tax hike and the rise of socialism in New York; this week's President's Week Series, and why revisiting the Founding Fathers and the Federalist Papers is essential to understanding where we are today; how big government and "free everything" policies impact taxpayers; why Americans are "voting with their feet" by leaving high-tax states like New York, Illinois, and Chicago for Florida; what this red state vs. blue state divide means for the future of federalism, and much more.

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0:00.0

Hello from the Gulf of America, everybody.

0:05.0

That's right, the Gulf of America, pretty sweet.

0:08.0

I just wanted to check in.

0:09.0

I really hope you guys have been enjoying our President's Week series.

0:13.0

Yeah, it was nice to have a couple days off,

0:15.0

but we really felt that, you know,

0:17.0

every now and again, we can take a break

0:20.0

from the daily grind of politics and do something that's a little more a little more timeless and that gives a little historical context to some of the craziness that that we're dealing with today and that that our founding fathers and presidents of past have had to deal with so So I really hope you guys enjoyed that. I love,

0:39.5

I really love shooting them and we're going to try to do some more stuff like that. In general,

0:44.6

I've been somewhat laying low this week on the news, but I'm seeing a lot of crap coming out of New York

0:51.0

City. I mean, surprise, surprise, communism isn't going to work? You think? Like, obviously. I mean, surprise, surprise. Communism isn't going to work. You think? Like,

0:57.3

obviously. I mean, now it sounds like Mom Dami, Mr. Everything's going to be free, except he needed

1:02.2

to raise money to throw literally his inauguration party. Well, now they want to raise property taxes

1:08.8

9.5%. And I have to tell you, being down here in Florida, especially this time of year, you know, winter, cold up north, so all these snowbirds come down here.

1:19.0

Most of the New York snowbirds, they go to the east coast.

1:22.4

They go more to the Miami area, Palm Beach area of Florida.

1:26.6

And from the Midwest, you get most of the people on the

1:29.6

west coast of Florida, which is where I am now. And I'm meeting a lot of people, particularly

1:33.9

from Chicago area, and they just can't believe what's going on in their state with this Pritzker

1:40.3

nutbag and obviously the general violence in Chicago itself.

1:45.0

So it's the city of Chicago.

1:46.0

It's the state of Illinois.

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