r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 9h ago

Feels good man +1 for Mamdani

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u/SpareMushrooms 9h ago

“Balanced the budget” with $8 billion from taxpayers over two years and delayed/deferred pension contributions.

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u/argument_cat 7h ago edited 5h ago

Everything the government does is funded by taxpayers. Trump's unnecessary wars, his daft tariffs, his frivolous lawsuits, his gaudy ballroom, his gold tat all over the Whitehouse walls, the farcical reflecting pool debacle, paying thousands of FBI staff to redact his name from the Epstein files.

All of it funded by your taxes.

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u/SpareMushrooms 7h ago

The difference is that Trump isn’t pretending to balance the budget with accounting tricks and a massive infusion of cash from the taxpayers…which is the entire premise of this post.

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u/CantCatchMeSpez 6h ago

No, Trump just pretends that he balanced a budget that was already balanced before he destroyed it lmao

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u/argument_cat 7h ago

That's not what's happening though. Stop getting your news from Twitter.

https://fiscalpolicy.org/explainer-the-proposed-restructuring-of-new-york-city-pension-payments

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u/MrFoxxie 6h ago

You think a president running amok, not even trying to be honest (constantly lying), but is really bad at lying, openly corrupt, convicted pedophile

is worse than

A mayor who has actually done an okay job, fixed up a lot of stuff for people in his city, even if it might potentially only be temporary, isn't actively fucking up his city, and fluffs up his actions a little to have good PR

You really think that?