On June 26, 2025 Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer made a clear, unapologetic offer to New Yorkers worried about the left’s march in the Big Apple: bring your families and your businesses to Florida, where freedom and low taxes still matter. Singer’s message wasn’t timid; it was a challenge to the growing socialist experiment in major cities that punishes success and rewards disorder.
Zohran Mamdani’s march through the Democratic primary — buoyed by promises of higher taxes, big government programs, and soft-on-crime rhetoric — has rattled sensible Americans who value safe streets and economic opportunity. Conservatives have every right to sound the alarm when policies on the table would saddle employers with punitive levies and hamstring law enforcement, driving jobs and families away.
Mayor Singer didn’t offer empty platitudes; he pitched concrete advantages: no state income tax, the lowest property tax rate among full-service Florida cities, and a city budget that prioritizes public safety and streamlined services. That’s the practical contrast Americans understand — governance that actually serves taxpayers versus virtue-signaling policies that create chaos.
Boca Raton even took its message to Times Square and reports show immediate interest, with brokers and business leaders ringing up inquiries about relocating after Mamdani’s primary victory. This is what happens when free-market policies are on offer and big-government experiments threaten livelihoods: capital and talent vote with their feet. Conservatives should celebrate that companies are finally being reminded there are safer harbors for enterprise.
Florida’s recruitment of frustrated New Yorkers isn’t petty politics; it’s an economic lifeline to people fed up with skyrocketing taxes, exploding crime, and bureaucrats who prefer slogans to results. Senators and governors from our side have rightly called out the insanity of policies that would tax businesses into exile, and local leaders like Singer are turning words into action by wooing those who still believe in work, family, and prosperity.
This moment is a reminder to every hardworking American that public policy has consequences, and cities run by socialists don’t remain havens for commerce for long. If you value secure neighborhoods, decent schools, and the right to keep what you earn, then leaders who fight for common-sense governance deserve support. Boca Raton’s open arms are a patriotic invitation to preserve the American dream, not surrender it to radical experiments.
