To understand how a New York City private jet tax could actually be implemented, you need to understand who controls the airports.
The Port Authority is a bi-state agency jointly controlled by the governors of New York and New Jersey with an annual operating budget of $10.1 billion and a proposed $45 billion capital plan from 2026 – 2035. It operates JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, and Teterboro — all rated high tax-risk under current political conditions. Teterboro Airport, which does not allow scheduled airline flights and only services private flights, handles approximately 177,000 arrivals and departures annually.
Westchester County Airport (HPN) is not a Port Authority facility. It is owned and operated by Westchester County — outside Mamdani’s direct political sphere and outside the joint gubernatorial control structure of the Port Authority. This makes it the most insulated major reliever airport in the New York metro under current political conditions.
Republic Airport (FRG) on Long Island is New York State property — its vulnerability depends on whether Governor Hochul aligns with Mamdani’s agenda, which remains an open question.
Key policy context: The Port Authority has the authority to set fees, surcharges, and access terms at its facilities without requiring standard legislative processes in many scenarios. The question isn’t just whether a tax gets proposed — it’s whether the mechanism to implement it already exists. In many cases, it does.
Go ahead. Tax every one I have.
Mamdami should be president
Unfortunately he’s wasn’t born in the United States.
Wait are people at fortune mad and scared?
That’s my fetish.
Am I supposed to feel bad for sociopathic billionaires?
Fuck you and your private jet
Truly baffling to read just how disconnected some people are.
When my butler read this to me, I couldn’t contain my outrage.
No friend of mine owns a private jet. Tax them out of existence
This whole article just reads like a deaf man who can’t hear the woosh of a falling guillotine blade.
99% of the people think “good!”. The other 1% have the power to make this go away.
I almost fainted, then re-read the header and saw shey will tax my jet, so I got relief. I thought they would be taxing my yatch!
We need to find cheap and easy ways for everyday people to build MANPAD’s explicitly to shoot down private jets. Make it so that pilots won’t want to fly them, and the rich will be too scared
