A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
I mean, only if you think those are genuine hissyfits and not just trying it just because it might work and costs them virtually nothing.
It’s not that say it and back down.
It’s that they say it because it costs them nothing to say it and they might get away with it.