A friend in Wall Street, but not quite on Wall Street told me about a potential way around Ayatollah Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax. The typical rich douche who is rich enough to have a NYC place as his or her 3rd home is also rich enough to have reproduced successfully (unlike the American working class; see below for how they’re being bred out of existence). If the douche owner has a child in college or grad/professional school, the child can declare the fancy apartment as his/her/zir/their primary residence so long as he/she/ze/they comes “home” during breaks. At that point, no tax is owed because an immediate family member is living in the place. The law says “For purposes of this article, the phrase “immediate family member” means a spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, or grandchild.”
Separately, a recent photo from Manhattan that includes a mixture of haram and halal outfits for females:
(ChatGPT says that American Muslims wouldn’t vote to outlaw these shameless un-Islamic displays of female flesh because “The evidence from actual Muslim political organizations in the U.S. points much more toward protecting Muslims’ own religious practices than toward imposing Islamic dress rules on everyone else” and then admits “What American Muslim organizations advocate while Muslims are a small minority tells us something about their current priorities, but it does not reliably tell us what the same constituency would advocate if it controlled legislatures. … I would expect some political pressure around the margins. It might take forms such as stricter school dress codes, sex-segregated recreation, modest uniforms, objections to sexually explicit advertising, accommodation of gender segregation, or pressure on municipal facilities.” ChatGPT cited a Pew survey in which a majority of Muslim women said that they themselves wear hijab in public.)
Incidentally, the sourdough bagels (Apollo Bagels) for which people were waiting in line (30+ minutes) didn’t seem as good as what we get in the local strip mall from Bagel Boyz. I’m sure that they were made perfectly, but not sure that sourdough is the answer for bagels. Measured by traditional criteria, a Dunkin bagel might actually be better than the best sourdough bagel! (Did I wait in line behind the haram blonde? No! This was place was right next to my hotel so I popped in at 2 pm when there was no line.)
Phil, your blog is a continuing smorgasbord of ideas for New Americans like me and my four wives (ages 8, 9, and two at 11), all of whom I purchased in Kabul last year. We are not as worldly as you, so I am wondering if we were to move to the Caliphate of New York, can I claim four tax deductions, one for each of my wives, if I also classify them as my children at “home” and taking a “break” from my Enslavement? I am after all a Proud Child Rapist and Cherish this Wonderful Tradition from Islam, which of course is the World’s Most Peaceful of Religions.