The War on Wealth Has Begun

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By Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox, Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox... Knowledge is power!

Now that the 2026 elections are behind us, what lies before us is unmistakable. If you think you didn’t like the war in the Middle East, just wait until the war on your “wealth” drops its first bombs. Depending on where you live will determine which battle of the war you are experiencing and how far it has advanced, but make no mistake, the war will touch us all.

To be sure, it won’t be a punch-you-in-the-face frontal bomb attack. Nay, they are too politically savvy for that. Instead, it will be a slow, meticulous creep that you will barely recognize, until alas, you are watching your bank account dwindle, seeing your earnings shrink in each paycheck, and feeling strapped for money as you choke on a plethora of new taxes, fees, and bills that never existed before. I project that you will likely even need to expend some of your money, sweat and tears on hiring a lawyer to help defend your family, your property, and your rights.

How do I know this? Because I live in the dystopian, ground zero Socialist state of New York, and for the past several years, I have been fighting tyranny and Socialism as imposed by a Democrat-controlled, state government. I know what they are planning nationwide, because they are either already doing it here in New York, or they are trying to. I’ve seen this movie previously, so I know how it starts, and how it ends.

After last week’s Blue wave of an election, now the entire country is controlled by that same tyrannical and socialist mindset that controls New York, as Congress saw both houses fall to the radical Dems. They are not hiding their agenda. Heck, they campaigned on it… socializing medicine with “Medicare for all,” student loan forgiveness, a renewed Green New Deal where all-electric cars and buildings are shoved down our throats, the abolition of ICE and alien deportations, reopening the border, free benefits and welfare for illegals, boys in girls’ sports, bathrooms and dormitories, etc. They are boldly and proudly saying that they are coming for you, the “traditional” American, and your money.

Sadly, it’s not just Congress that the “progressives” swept. They also flipped many state governments, too, so your ability to flee to a “more free” state just got that much more difficult.

Before I explain their plan to rob you of your money and shift the wealth of our nation from the honest, hard-working Americans to the entitleds (a noun I made up to signify those who believe the Socialists’ mantra that they should be taken care of by the government with money taken from “the rich”), let’s first look at the numbers that the massive Blue wave left behind:

The Tsunami

The midterm elections saw tremendous losses by Team Red, as they lost control of much of the country on multiple levels. Though some races are still too close to call, as of this writing, here’s what’s what, according to online voting sources such as Ballotpedia:

1. Congress:
   1. House of Representatives:

• Democrats took control of the House.
• Republicans lost at least 42 previously Republican-held seats.
• There are 435 seats, so 218 seats are needed for a majority. Of the 435 seats, right now 254 were won by Dems, and 165 won by Republicans, with 16 seats left to call.

b. U.S. Senate:

• Democrats took control of the Senate, as Republicans lost 7 seats.
• There are 100 seats, so 51 seats are needed for a majority. Of the 100, right now 54 were won by Dems (including 2 Independents that caucus with Dems), and 44 by Republicans (and 2 races not yet called).
• Seven states changed party control: Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas.

2. Governorships:
   1. Democrats won all 5 gubernatorial races that changed party control: Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Texas, and Nevada.
   2. The Texas and Georgia results are particularly significant because both of those states had been Republican-controlled at the state-government level prior to this election.
   3. The national balance of governors flipped. With 2 races still uncalled, as of now, the Democrats now have at least 28 states (up from 24), and the Republicans now have at least 20 states, down from 26.
3. State legislatures:
   1. Democrats flipped 12 legislative chambers. This is significant nationally because state legislatures control redistricting, election laws, state budgets, education policy, and other issues that can reverberate across the country.
   2. Thus far:
      • Democrats gained 262 state legislative seats.
      • Republicans did not flip any state’s chambers from Democratic control.
      • Republicans lost both chambers in 3 states: Arizona, New Hampshire, Wisconsin.
      • Republicans lost at least one chamber in 5 states: Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas (all of whom lost the state House); and Pennsylvania (where they lost the state Senate).
   3. Republicans lost supermajorities in 9 states (which is significant because having a supermajority allows you to override a governor’s veto): Florida (House and Senate), Indiana (House), Iowa (House), Kansas (House), Missouri (House and Senate), New Hampshire (House and Senate), North Carolina (Senate), Ohio (House), South Carolina (House).

In sum, this election changed the balance of political power at both the federal and state levels in our country:

1. Federal government: Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress. Starting in January, and for the next 2 years at least, Democrats will have control of the House and Senate.

2. Governors: Democrats now hold a majority of governorships, reversing a Republican advantage that had been a reality since 2010.

3. State legislatures: Democrats now control a majority of state legislative chambers, also reversing the Republican position since 2010.

4. State government control: Republicans lost several state-government trifectas. Democrats gained new trifectas in states including Nevada, while Republican trifectas were broken in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas.

The Redistribution of Your Wealth

I wrote an article earlier this year entitled, “The redistribution of your wealth is underway.” It was one of my most highly read articles this year, thus far, which tells me that being robbed by the government isn’t something that sits well with most Americans. In that article, I point out that whether or not you deem yourself to be “wealthy,” has no bearing on a Socialist (or Communist) government.

I explained:

You see, when Communists and Socialists create policies to redistribute wealth, you are a target whether you deem yourself “wealthy” or not. The easiest and most common way to take your wealth is by taxing you, excessively. They tax you on absolutely everything from your property that your house sits on, to the car that you drive, to the gas (or electricity) you put in that car to make it run, to the food you consume to stay alive, to the undergarments beneath the outfit you are dawning right now, and so on and so forth. Once they are done taxing you on everything… they start all over again.

To be clear, taxes include “fees.” The word “fee” is what the government likes to name things that they are embarrassed to admit they “tax” you for. A good example is the dog license you must purchase each year in order to attain and retain the privilege of owning man’s best friend, or the $9 “toll” you must pay for the right to drive south of 60th Street in Manhattan.

To those elitist politicians conjuring up these tax schemes, you are indeed “wealthy” even if you and your spouse both work, sometimes multiple jobs, and even if you cringe when you look at your energy bill each month, or when you stop to fill up your gas tank. Unless you are destitute and fully reliant on them (i.e. the government), then - in their eyes - you still have money and resources they can siphon away from you.

They do all of this taxing and overtaxing to supposedly help the “less fortunate” as they like to put it. Of course, these people are not actually interested in helping the poor, for if they were, they would give their own money to the cause… something they never do. No, you see, they are just interested in taking your money so they can more easily control you. Think about it… It’s impossible to retain your personal autonomy if your purchasing power is greatly curbed, or non-existent.

A perfect example of this is Communist Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani’s, newest tax that is being called the “pied-a-terre” tax. If you follow my work, you will recall that for approximately two decades, my law practice was based in Real Estate Law, and property taxes in particular, so this new “tax the rich” property tax scheme falls well within my wheelhouse. As such, the intricacies and nuances of this newest wealth transfer plan is plain for me to see, and easy for me to explain to unsuspecting Americans. To that end, last week I was on NTD News to explain the new tax, who it applies to, how it came about, its negative implications, and how I see them (the politicians) ultimately expanding it. You can watch that interview by clicking here (starting at 38:25), or by scrolling up to the video at the top of this post.

My interview also covers the class warfare that Comrade Mamdani and Comrade Kathy (aka Governor Hochul) are promoting with this new tax. (Note: Albany Dems passed this tax and Hochul signed it into law, all at the behest of their comrade who runs NYC, so they are all in on it… City and State). As if the very essence of this pied-a-terre tax wasn’t enough to elicit class warfare itself, in addition to rolling out the new tax, NYC also published a searchable database that lists all of the names and property addresses of NYC residents that the government believes have second homes in the City that are worth $1mm+ (for condos/coops) and $5mm+ (for 1-3 family houses). These commies (Mamdani and his lapdog, Hochul) lied and said the list would only have about 31,000 people (and their properties) on it, but in reality, their list has over 960,000 people (and their addresses) listed! Of course, many of the rich and famous are listed there, but so are regular people whose names and properties shouldn’t even be on that list. Yet, there they are for the entire world to see. And scroll.

So, not only are they going to uber-tax you… they are doxxing you while they do it.

In addition to the newest, tax-the-rich, pied-a-terre tax, New York’s Socialist government is also doing things like:

• Implementing government control over the sale of real estate by telling a property owner who they can and cannot sell their property to. Obviously, it is wildly unconstitutional, but it’s being pushed forward under the lie of being an “affordable housing” policy. You can read my article on that “COPA” law by clicking HERE.
• Stealing property owners’ buildings from them through a new “Block by Block” initiative, where the government will use “aggressive legal action” against the owners to ultimately transfer the properties to those who are more deserving, like for example your tenants. It is a whopping 100+ page long action plan to destroy the American dream in real time. For more details, you can read my article I wrote on this by clicking HERE.
• Freezing the rent so that landlords cannot increase their tenants’ rent, which will clearly result in them being unable to maintain the properties which will lead to the deterioration of the properties, and ultimately the landlord’s ability to retain ownership. If you want to read my article explaining this in more detail, then click HERE.

You can bet that no matter where you live, you will see many of Mamdani’s newly minted comrades now in your state government, or as your new federal representatives in Congress. So, brace yourself for their toxic logic, and the deceitful programs they’ll use to usher Socialism in:

But, the problem is not just the anti-American, Socialist politicians.

The problem is actually two-fold: 1) It’s the Socialist politicians, as noted above; and 2) It’s the voters who are so ill-informed, that they vote for them. The people who want to turn the United States into a socialist country not only are putting these radical politicians in power (by funding their races), but they have also captured our education system. So, we now have a generation of young voters who have been brainwashed to think that the government should take care of them… using your money. These are the people I refer to above as the “entitleds.”

Here are a couple of examples:

This Gen Z’er hates capitalism and believes that corporations don’t pay their fair share. And yet, she just went to Disney and buys things on Amazon…

This “aspiring artist” is anti-America, and says she would leave if she could, because we spend more money on bombs than social services. When she hears the correct statistics that we spend about 50% of our federal budget on social services and only 10-20% on military, she shrugs and says it’s still too much, and she still hates our country…

The Solution

So what is the answer? How do we handle life under the socialist wave that is sadly now upon us?

I suggest we start by educating those around us, and especially our youth, to what Socialism really is, and what it really does, for they have absolutely NO CLUE.

Case in point…

The above post reads:

A Free Press reporter asks New Yorkers if socialism is good for America. They all say yes. Then she brings out Daniel Di Martino, who fled Venezuela, and they get a firsthand horror story they weren’t ready for.

NEW YORKER: “I think socialism is actually really good for society.”

DI MARTINO: “Are you familiar with how socialism worked out in other countries historically?”

NEW YORKER: “Just because it didn’t work out so well in other parts of the world doesn’t mean it won’t work out well for New York.”

Di Martino’s family lived through the promises these voters are buying.

DI MARTINO: “My family went from making $2,000 a month 20 years ago to $100 a month in 2016. That was because the government gave everything you can imagine for free.” “We went from being a normal middle-class family with a car and then no electricity, no water.”

Asked if they support “government grocery stores,” the answer is just as confident.

NEW YORKER: “Of course I do.”

So Di Martino explains what grocery shopping looked like under socialism.

DI MARTINO: “There was very little supply of chicken, toilet paper. It was a line for blocks and blocks for a grocery store.”

NEW YORKER: “What happened in Venezuela isn’t going to happen here. The policy is more focused on helping people out.”

A man describes lines stretching for blocks just to buy chicken and toilet paper, and a Mamdani voter waves it away. Because THIS time, they’re sure it will work.

REPORTER: “You know, they have tried that in the Soviet Union from where my parents and my grandparents are from. All they remember of grocery stores is empty shelves.”

DI MARTINO: “The DSA went to Venezuela just last year to support the dictator and say that he won the election that he didn’t.”

NEW YORKER: “I had no idea. I did not know.”

DI MARTINO: “Government rent control. It’s going to stop people from renting apartments because they’re not going to be able to profit. There are going to be fewer apartments for rent.”

NEW YORKER: “That’s a good point. I agree with that. Okay. I understand more about socialism now for sure.”

Socialism always sounds good to people who’ve never had to live under it. Those who have never want to live under it again.

Knowledge is power. Let’s start sharing the power!

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