Zohran Mamdani - The Communist Wins NYC Mayor Race - Best Of Luck To NYC

Rastafarian

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Controversial as all hell but the message is working. Bernie became very popular under the same messaging. And when the wealth gap widens even more like it has, it’s only going to resonate with more people.

I’ve made my thoughts clear that tax loopholes need to be closed. Those in the 50-99%tile pay too much in taxes because the 1% is under taxed, which leads to inequality.

But I think affordability is best left to the market. Enable developers to build as easily as possible so you can increase supply. But also people will opt out of high priced cities at a certain point. And companies will love jobs out of high priced cities at a certain point since they will be able to pay less for the same job.
 

scotchtiger

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Controversial as all hell but the message is working. Bernie became very popular under the same messaging. And when the wealth gap widens even more like it has, it’s only going to resonate with more people.

I’ve made my thoughts clear that tax loopholes need to be closed. Those in the 50-99%tile pay too much in taxes because the 1% is under taxed, which leads to inequality.

But I think affordability is best left to the market. Enable developers to build as easily as possible so you can increase supply. But also people will opt out of high priced cities at a certain point. And companies will love jobs out of high priced cities at a certain point since they will be able to pay less for the same job.

Generally agree here, but the 1% is not under taxed. The argument is better stated that the top 0.001% are undertaxed.
 

drnuckles6

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I can’t access poly market, but I’d throw a small bit for those odds.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens if he wins. The people of NYC have to live with their decision so more power to them. If that’s what they want then so be it. Good luck to them, I genuinely hope it works out well for them although I have my doubts.


Turns out, they knew shlt
 

TigerGrowls

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This will not end well.



One last thing about Mamdani and socialism:

Of course his policies will eventually fail, everybody knows that.

But the moves he’ll make while he HAS THAT POWER is what New Yorkers should be worried about.

Because NY WILL BECOME LONDON.

NY WILL BECOME PARIS.

NY WILL BECOME BERLIN.

He’ll gut police budgets, skyrocketing CRIME AND STABBINGS.

He’ll empower Muslims over everyone else—halal mandates in schools, prayer calls blasting from City Hall, Sharia ā€œconsultantsā€ on zoning boards.

He’ll hand public housing keys to NGOs who will bus in MORE MUSLIM ILLEGALS.

He’ll prioritize mosque expansions while churches get taxed into oblivion.

He’ll let CAIR dictate ā€œhate crimeā€ definitions that only protect one faith.

He will follow THE MUSLIM TAKEOVER HANDBOOK TO THE LETTER.

And NY Democrats dont care about ANY of that:

THEY JUST WANNA WIN.

They just wanna KEEP REPUBLICANS OUT.

Look guys, London didn’t fall in a day.

It took strategically placed politicians to make that happen.

Mamdani is just the latest of those.

How long will it take for New Yorkers to REGRET voting for him?
 

LafayetteBear

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Grocery stores that don’t have to pay taxes or rent! It’s just free!

Someone explain opportunity cost to Zophran. There is no such thing as free.

He misunderstands just as he misread the website where he thought the funding was. Grade A moron.


Didn't Trump force Intel to give the government a stake in Intel? Should he be called a Communist, too?
 
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Grocery stores that don’t have to pay taxes or rent! It’s just free!

Someone explain opportunity cost to Zophran. There is no such thing as free.

He misunderstands just as he misread the website where he thought the funding was. Grade A moron.


Buildings that don’t pay taxes? Like churches?
 

tboonpickens

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did Trump force Intel to give the govt a stake? I hadn't heard that.

No, a communist would have just taken over Intel
yeah this is much better. wouldn't want any dirty commies to pull any funny business while in office.

but Hunter Biden's laptop...

 

dpic73

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Tell us what you meant then.
I'm saying that Mamdani is much more popular with young adults than Donald Trump and their lives are hard enough right now with the high cost of living and the difficulty of finding jobs after they graduate, so if he makes their lives even harder by defunding the city, he's just going to drive them harder left and into Mamdani's camp for the rest of his term. The vengeful moron has already defunded the badly needed Gateway project so he better start showing that he cares about the people that overwhelmingly voted for Mamdani or risk losing the youth vote long-term.