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Kevin O’Leary didn’t come to CNN to politely nibble at the edges of the debate — he ripped the mask off the media’s favorite headline-grabber and exposed the naked math behind a left-wing wish list. On Tuesday he mocked Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tax fantasies as “bat cuckoo crazy,” refusing to let the panelists gaslight viewers about who actually pays when government raises taxes.
Mamdani’s so-called “millionaire tax” is not just rhetoric: he’s proposed adding a 2 percentage-point surtax on incomes above $1 million while openly floating a nightmarish 9.5 percent property-tax hike as a fallback. Those are policy choices that take a city already on the edge and shove it toward higher living costs and shrinking opportunity, not the progressive utopia his allies promise.
The real-world fallout is painfully predictable — higher combined tax burdens, an exodus of high earners and businesses, and a smaller tax base left to carry a bigger burden. Analysts have warned that those extra surtaxes would push combined city and state rates to levels that invite flight rather than investment, a lesson every taxpayer and small business owner understands by now.
Watching the CNN panel try to paper over those facts while O’Leary cut through the narrative was a reminder that conservative common sense still resonates with working Americans. O’Leary’s blunt assessment laid bare the liberal playbook: promise services, ignore the math, and then demand more money from everyone when the spending binge predictably fails.
New Yorkers and patriots across this country should take this moment seriously — the choice is not between taxes and fairness, it’s between honest government that lives within its means and the perpetual spending appetite of the left. If voters want safer streets, better schools and a thriving economy, they should reject the tax-and-spend crowd and demand fiscal discipline from Albany to City Hall.
