The city Department of Finance released an “enemies list” of property owners who might be covered by the new non-resident “pied-a-terre” tax — a kind of one-stop class-warfare shopping list for antifa radicals looking for targets.
The “enemies list” of property owners consolidates their names, addresses and assets into a ready-made targeting directory. History shows how dangerous this can become: authoritarian movements have repeatedly used property rolls, confiscation lists and public registries to identify, intimidate and dispossess politically demonized classes—from Soviet “kulaks” to Jewish property owners catalogued under the Nazis. Government should never package citizens’ personal information in a form that invites harassment, burglary or political retaliation. Once the state publicly marks a class of people as villains to be punished, taxation can become something
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