Mamdani's Ultimatum: Tax the Rich or Crush Every Homeowner in NYC | 2/18/26

Pat Gray Unleashed

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News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Zohran Mamdani's plan to fix New York City's budget crisis involves pressuring Albany to soak the rich with higher income taxes on millionaires and bigger levies on profitable corporations, claiming it's the "fairest" way to avoid hurting working families. If state leaders refuse, he threatens a massive 9.5% city property tax hike as a backup, which would slam homeowners, co-op residents, and middle-class New Yorkers. This ultimatum-style approach is designed to force higher taxes on the wealthy by holding property owners hostage. How is the warmth of collectivism now in New York? We Also Cover: Customer service call centers. Savannah Guthrie writes about a kidnapping. Taking your calls. Ozempic houses are a thing? Poop on the sidewalks of New York City. Property taxes are immoral. Whoopi Goldberg is in the Epstein files. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED! 00:33 Complaining about Call Centers 11:25 Caller Scott 14:24 Bizarre Excerpt from Savannah Guthrie's Book 24:59 More Information on Rhode Island Shooting 36:27 Chewing the Fat 54:29 Caller Rob 1:04:54 Ozempic Houses 1:13:52 Zohran Mamdani Releases New NYC Budget 1:18:41 Zohran Mamdani's Property Tax Hike 1:21:56 Zohran Mamdani Explains Why He's Raiding the Reserves 1:30:59 Whoopi Goldberg is on the Epstein List 1:33:32 Who Exactly is on the Epstein List? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pat Gray is here on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:19.1	And welcome.
0:23.0	TRIPLAE 9100.33. And welcome. Triple-8-900-3393.
0:26.1	Also, Pat Unleashed on Twitter, if you'd like to get in touch with us during the course of the day.
0:32.9	Is it just me or is anybody else fed up with foreign customer service call centers?
0:42.3	Maybe it's just me.
0:43.8	I don't know.
0:44.4	I feel like they're trying to get better?
0:46.3	I can't take it.
0:47.7	I had another issue with it yesterday.
0:51.3	First, the first thing is, we have a a new insurance company that we do yes we
0:58.3	and they're fun fun fun fun very nice well they might be the single worst in human history
1:04.2	it's like bob's discount health emporium and dog walking service or Cigna.
1:11.9	I don't know.
1:12.4	One of the two.
1:13.1	I can't tell the difference.
1:14.6	I'm not sure which it is.
1:16.4	So I started out pissed to begin with because once again, they've denied a prescription I need for diabetes.
1:25.3	It's a new, probably a new medicine, a newer medicine?
1:29.1	I, you know, it's Mangero.
1:31.3	Oh, okay.
1:32.2	Which is granted.
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