Mamdani looks to balance his books with . . . – Latest News
Give Mayor Zohran Mamdani this a lot: He wasn’t afraid to deliver the blarney to Albany for the Legislature’s annual “Tin Cup Day,” when native officers plead for more money from the state.
Among his feats: Admitting that the $12 billion price range hole he pointed to simply three weeks in the past is already (mysteriously) down to $7 billion — whereas nonetheless citing the bigger determine as purpose to go the exact same tax hikes he’s been calling for since earlier than he admitted there was any hole in any respect.
He additionally complained that New York City sends more money to the state than it will get back in spending — pretending ignorance of the truth that that is how progressive taxation works.
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That is, Gotham is richer than the remainder of the state: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” means town ought to get much less back.
It additionally cuts towards his calls for for statewide tax hikes to fund spending for his NYC priorities: Democratic Socialists aren’t supposed to play “reverse Robin Hood.”
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He blamed ex-Mayor Eric Adams for “gross fiscal mismanagement” — with out complaining that Adams spent an excessive amount of (after all, Mamdani means to spend more) however merely whining that the final mayor didn’t price range for town’s “needs.”
And he slammed one other bête noire, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for supposedly stiffing town of its due — again dancing round the truth that the Big Apple is “the rich” in contrast to different cities, so perhaps Cuomo was the true socialist?
As new Assembly Minority Leader Ed Ra identified afterward, all of New York state faces large “affordability” points, so it’s a thriller why Albany ought to give attention to funding Mamdani’s want checklist.
“New Yorkers’ faith in our democracy” is “at an all-time low,” the mayor huffed, thanks to “years of having been deceived by the leadership of the past.”
As best we are able to inform, his plan boils down to doing a higher job of deceiving all people.
