Democrat Rep Blurts Out He’s ‘All For You Paying Higher Taxes Anywhere In The Country’

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York told Fox News host Bill Hemmer Monday he opposed tax increases in his state but wanted to see higher federal tax rates.

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani of New York City has been running on left-wing policies, including establishing government-run grocery stores, free child care and free use of transit buses, while also calling for increasing taxes on predominantly white and wealthy neighborhoods of the Big Apple to fund those programs. Hemmer, on “America’s Newsroom,” asked Suozzi about former President Barack Obama declining to endorse Mamdani, leading Suozzi, who said he “fundamentally” disagrees with Mamdani’s proposals, to criticize the self-described Democratic socialist mayoral candidate.

“I think that we have to look at the fact that Mamdani, again, like President Trump, is a charismatic person and effective campaigner and he knows how to use social media and he’s very intelligent and he’s tapped into this anxiety people have about their finances, the same as President Trump has,” Suozzi, who announced he was backing former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday, said. “The problem is his solutions, raise taxes in New York, raise the minimum wage in New York are bad ideas because New York is not competitive with the rest of the country.”