“Blakeman (X video, Jul 26): Hochul and Mamdani "want to increase the number of people subject to an inheritance tax," forcing families to sell homes, farms and businesses to pay it”
New York has an estate tax (paid by the estate), not an inheritance tax (paid by heirs); Blakeman's video does not cite a specific Hochul proposal to expand it. The related, documented policy is Mamdani's proposed NYC second-home ("pied-a-terre") tax, which Hochul has said would affect roughly 13,000 properties (~0.4% of NYC housing units) — a city property-tax proposal, not an inheritance or estate tax, and not applicable to primary family homes. No Hochul proposal to lower the estate-tax threshold or convert it to an heir-paid inheritance tax was found in the article or accessible reporting. Rated unverified pending any specific proposal the campaign can point to.