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For New Yorkers who have had it with hate-filled leftists who celebrate the murder of a businessman—and with a mayoral administration that credentializes them—a compelling protest vehicle has arrived. Promising to be a “champion for common sense,” Wall Street deal lawyer Caroline Shinkle is running for an open U.S. House seat as an unapologetic advocate for economic
opportunity and public safety. While New York’s Marxist Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonizes successful people, Ms. Shinkle wants to enable the conditions to create many more of them. “I’d like to reduce the federal income tax on W-2 wages,” says Ms. Shinkle, adding: I think if you work for a living, that’s behavior we want to encourage. It’s a good thing. It’s honorable. And as you learn in Economics 101… we tax behavior by and large that is bad, you know, excise tax, tobacco, alcohol. So why are we taxing so heavily behavior that is so good when you think about it? Good question. She diagnoses the current economic challenge facing New York City: People are getting taxed to death. People are leaving. They’re voting with their feet. Capital markets are efficient. People will move. Ms. Shinkle is a Republican trying to flip a Manhattan district that has been reliably Democratic for years. The current representative of New York’s 12th Congressional District, Rep. Jerry Nadler, is retiring after more than three decades in Congress. A competitive race to replace him as the Democratic nominee and presumed next member of Congress has attracted voluminous campaign
donations from various interest groups.
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