Posted on: February 13, 2026 11:00 AM

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Tax the rich heading to Albany to cough up dough

February 25 is the date as part of the Tax the Rich campaign is heading to Albany to demand more money for universal child care with people on paychecks to run the operation, free buses and affordable housing. The ride is free with food, water and fantastic sight seeing of the route to Albany and meeting new people.

This is the new campaign for NYC which is on the demand roll. In order to make NYC affordable, tax the rich is the campaign but the rich don't pay taxes in this city. It's the middle class as always.

The Mayor held a session with state lawmakers to approve a 2% personal income tax increase on wealthy residents and to raise corporate taxes which the Governor does not support so far.

With construction going everywhere in NYC by developers, the new rental rate according to the Comptroller has Manhattan at $5,711 an increase of 11.3%, Brooklyn at $4,264 an increase of 7.5% and northwest Queens at $3,997 an increase of 10.6% which are all affordable.

At the same the Comptroller stated it costs more than $500,000 annually to house a detainee at Rikers Island so the cost saving method is supportive housing, job training and programs to avoid incarceration. All with love and some more love to expand housing everywhere to bring crime down.

With the Governor’s re-election coming up, additional taxpayer funds will be allocated to cruise to an easy victory with the Mayor’s same voters backing to drain more from the working people who won’t see the reality.

Now ask this question - How is raising taxes, it's not just the wealthy but all working people in NY going to make the city more affordable?