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Michael Goodwin: Democrats are revving up to raid New Yorkers pockets for freebies

As budget season ramps up in City Hall and Albany, New Yorkers should prepare to be blitzed with grand promises of government goodies.

Such is life in a deep blue state that the hottest competition will be among far-left Dems to see who can promise the most freebies.

A close second will be the contest to see who is the most passionate about taxing businesses and the so-called rich to pay for those giveaways.

Think of it as a huge socialist bake-off, with Mayor Mamdani having already started the bidding by pledging that the road to Nirvana will be paved with much higher taxes and much more government spending.

That message carried him to a shocking victory last year, and most Dems are now members of his amen chorus.

Gov. Hochul pretends not to be, but her fig leaf of resistance is suspect and faces a real-life test.

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The rich, of course, will have no real say in the matter, except to grumble and move out of the city and state to avoid the unfolding disaster.

Ditto for successful businesses, which are viewed by the left as so many chickens waiting to be plucked.

But as Jamie Dimon, CEO of ­JPMorgan Chase, noted Tuesday on Fox News, already “there’s a huge exodus taking place. It’s not good for the city.”

He added that sky-high taxers often “think they’re being moral by doing that, but they’re not. What they’re doing is they’re hurting your own city. And, you know, unfortunately, people vote with their feet.”

Even before the final act........

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