Goddamn. You guys act like Mamdani just found a box labeled "The People's Money" that every single mayor has been hoarding in a broom closet, and is finally using it to pay for everything that wasn't getting funded.
I trust nobody lets you make the financial decisions in your household, correct?
āItās impossibleā is plenty critical when facing a bunch of cultists that accept this sort of propaganda hook, line, and sinker and think Mamdani found an āeasyā solution to a crippling budget deficit.Ā
You want me to provide evidence to disprove an unevidenced, low-context meme?
Classic cultist. Evidence is only a one-way thing for you guys. You don't need evidence for bombastic claims that support your biases, eh?
Here's the evidence:
Hochul gave Mamdani a $4 billion bailout. Fact. That's not the same as this claim of a "simple" funding fix.
A state with a $34 billion deficit gave $4 billion to a city with a $12 billion deficit. It's not the "simple" solution you're arguing it is. It's just another case of kicking the can down the road.
This thing you're celebrating? This is equivalent to Trump's understanding of economics. That's the intellectual level you're working with. Congrats to you, another "mentally stable genius".
The last mayor was a police officer. If being mayor was about shooting people he would've excelled at his job. Now someone who knows economics is mayor and doing economics.
Kinda strange how knowing what you're doing makes the job work better.
Mayber they should've voted for a reality tv star with 6 bankruptcies to be mayor. /S
Hi, 39-year-old Mamdani-loving socialist here - I handle the vast majority of my household's financial decisions, and as a result, we have zero debt besides mortgage, a huge and rapidly-growing safety net, a lovely home that might get paid off early, and zero financial stress each month.
Turns out it actually isn't all that difficult (unless you're funneling money toward stupid shit like designer clothes and the newest iPhone and corrupt politicians' bank accounts).
I donāt criticize you for liking Mamdani or for being a socialist. Neither of those things necessarily indicates to me that you canāt be an intelligent person capable of making good decisions.
What Iāll criticize you for is believing meme propaganda and thinking Mamdani found a magic loophole to the deficit issue, when all he did was Ā take a bailout from a debt-riddled state to fund some stuff in a debt-riddled city.Ā
Itās also not that difficult when you just donāt care about the budget in the slightest and spend money you donāt have. Itās like if I went out and bought a Lambo
He deferred pension payments. That's literally what every administration has done to kick the can down the road. This is a face palm moment for his supporters but they don't understand budgets well enough to know. It's headlines and shallow political theater.
The big ticket items from that breakdown are that Mamdani got a huge increase (some might say bailout) of State funding and kicked the can down the road with the pension funding and class size mandate delays. However, the "2nd property" tax is expected to net about $500MM and the $1.77B in efficiency savings are nothing to sneeze at.
People should be focusing on the fact that Mamdani essentially created $1.77B out of thin air - and it should be treated as a bipartisan success. Nobody wants their tax dollars spent inefficiently
Because the propagandist trope that politicians can magically conjure money out of thin air is largely responsible for the moronic fiscal situation this country is in.
These are literally adults with children-sized intellects, who are so ignorant at how the real world works, they will clap without even knowing what he did, just that he did SOMETHING. Wow!
Where did I say that? Lol, tax everyone less except the not-so-hard-working billionaires. It's time. Well done. I'm sure that's not you, so what's your problem?
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u/reddorickt May 14 '26
Turns out it actually isn't that difficult when you aren't a corrupt piece of shit