“You can make historic investments without raising income taxes,” the governor said. One idea that has circulated in recent years is a pied-à-terre tax. Ironically, the bigger issue for the pied-à-terre tax is that the people who support the idea rank it low on their priority list. “We have to get beyond the personal income tax,” Gripper said. “People think the income tax is toxic, so we need a new tax but that’s thinking backwards,” he said.