"What if his ideas work?"
That's why you're dead-set against letting him try.

If you were an honest person, you'd acknowledge there's more than a glimmer of truth in that.

#75 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 03:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

I don't know what world you woke up in this morning but I'm not keeping him from anything. I can't even vote against him.

Rent freeze? Anyone? Anyone?

Can this plan get through the NY State Legislature?

seems like a tough sell.

#79 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-29 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Looks like this is going to fall squarely on the people who live or work in NYC.

Is it now.
Is it going down the tubes any more than the rest of America under Trump?

#76 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 03:37 PM | Reply | Flag

Nice try... Trump was no where around when the cities in California started their spiral.

-They'll quit their NYC jobs over a 1-2% tax hike?

What taxes are you referring to? Property taxes? Income taxes? Sales taxes? Permits? Licensing?

And still no takers on the rent freeze.

You started there because you're a fundamentally dishonest person.

#67 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 03:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

I started there because Mamdani want's to provide benefits that currently aren't available. In turn, it would mean he has to come up with the money to begin providing said benefits. I don't like his ideas because I haven't seen it work. If he can prove that it works, I don't care what he does. This whole idea that he's going to be a modern-day Robin Hood is ridiculous. And NYC is going down the tubes like some of these other once beautiful cities did.

#66 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 03:14 PM | Reply | Flag

Not yet...

NYC will pass legal tax increases that the people being taxed can afford.

#64 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-29 02:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

And those people being taxed will pivot. It happens every single time.

But go ahead and throw around comments like "Progressive Taxation"

I also gave you another chance to explain how the rent freezes will work and you danced right around that one too.

Does Mamdani know how it will work? Does he know how much more revenue it will take to implement these things? And if he does, he should be able to drop solid numbers and explain. What's his plan when he loses the top 5% of tax payers?

- Mamdani's opposition, on the other hand, isn't about personal ethics or corruption. It's ideological. He's pushing for a level of socialism (e.g., rent freezes, city-run groceries, and free public transit, etc.) that's never really been implemented at this scale in the U.S. The fear isn't that he'll fail; it's that he might actually succeed and prove those ideas popular.

As long as it gets funded there is no failure. That's the issue. The money has to come from somewhere and NYC is a pricey place to begin with. What that means is he's going to have to take money from people who would never take advantage of these perks, and give it to people who can't otherwise afford it.

"rent freezes" Not sure how this one will work. Will the city subsidize the landlord, or will they just stick them with a loss? Because if it actually is what I think it is, this is going to be a disaster.

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I don't care if the government ever opens again. None of this has caused me an iota of discomfort.

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Word on the street is, its going to be named The Monica Lewinsky Ball Room.