{"id":73143,"date":"2026-05-06T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-york-real-estate-titan-likens-the-phrase-tax-the-rich-to-racial-slurs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:04:19","slug":"new-york-real-estate-titan-likens-the-phrase-tax-the-rich-to-racial-slurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-york-real-estate-titan-likens-the-phrase-tax-the-rich-to-racial-slurs\/","title":{"rendered":"New York real estate titan likens the phrase \u2018tax the rich\u2019 to racial slurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Roth was responding to the announcement by New York\u2019s mayor of tax on second homes worth more than $5m<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The phrase \u201ctax the rich\u201d can be \u201cjust as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs\u201d, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be \u201cpraised and thanked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his company\u2019s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York\u2019s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state\u2019s first \u201cpied-\u00e0-terre\u201d tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin\u2019s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/06\/tax-the-rich-racial-slurs-new-york-real-estate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Roth was responding to the announcement by New York\u2019s mayor of tax on second homes worth more than $5m Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The phrase \u201ctax the rich\u201d can be \u201cjust as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs\u201d, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said &#8230; <a title=\"New York real estate titan likens the phrase \u2018tax the rich\u2019 to racial slurs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-york-real-estate-titan-likens-the-phrase-tax-the-rich-to-racial-slurs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New York real estate titan likens the phrase \u2018tax the rich\u2019 to racial slurs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}