Mamdani’s war on the rich: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Mayor Mamdani driving billionaires’ companies, like Ken Griffin’s Citadel, out of NYC.
Mayor Mamdani, America provides each particular person the alternative to achieve success — it’s referred to as working onerous for what you need. Being white and wealthy doesn’t make a individual dangerous (“NYC will pay for Mam’s rich ba$h,” Michael Goodwin, May 10) .
The mayor ought to stop pretending like he’s half of the poor neighborhood and — slightly than making an attempt to make rich people like Ken Griffin seem like monsters — he ought to train low-income youth how they sooner or later may also be a rich success.
Robert Tribuzio Jr.
The Bronx
Shelling out a few additional {dollars} in taxes shouldn’t be such a hardship for crybabies like Griffin. Those few additional {dollars} characterize a mere drop in the bucket for these fats cats.
But in the event that they need to depart the Big Apple for greener and cheaper pastures, all I can say is “good riddance.” There will probably be lots of new billionaires keen to take their locations.
As a staunch supporter of Mamdani, I assist his “tax the rich” agenda to help fund social applications and benefit the much less lucky amongst us. Only the egocentric would object to this.
J. J. Crovatto
Ramsey, NJ
Ideologues like Mamdani don’t hearken to motive, even when the sky is falling on them. It’s all the time another person’s fault — the wealthy, the companies or President Trump.
New Yorkers voted for his or her own destruction, in order that they need to change simply as a lot as Mamdani. Good luck with that.
Gary Layton
Interlaken, NJ
The exodus of main companies in New York City has begun. But if the prime 1% of taxpayers pay the majority of taxes and also you run them off, who’s going to interchange them?
Capitalism and socialism can not coexist. Socialism doesn’t construct wealth — it discourages business growth and makes use of others’ money to fund itself.
Addressing affordability is a matter of coverage adjustments; taxing the wealthy is no repair. It appears Mamdani and different socialists will not be acquainted with how metropolis funds work.
Greg Raleigh
Washington, DC
Mamdani may study a lot from my canine: You don’t chew the hand that feeds you.
Joe Zeloof
Hamilton, NJ
Mamdani vilifying the rich places a goal on their backs and gives an unstable individual the rationale for inflicting hurt. It will not be far-fetched on this age of assassinations.
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Griffin is an extraordinary philanthropist. I wouldn’t be shocked, nor would I blame him, if he pulls the relaxation of Citadel’s business out of New York.
Phil Serpico
Queens
The Issue: Rep. AOC saying her “ambition is to change this country,” not run for president.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Miss America runway speech of how she’ll change America fell short (“I want to change US: AOC,” May 11).
She failed to understand that not everyone seems to be on board along with her socialist agenda. She additionally completely misinterpreted the Founding Fathers of this nation, saying they have been in opposition to “billionaires of their time.”
Between her phony “tax the rich” Met Gala robe and her jaunt to Miami during COVID, it’s onerous to know who the actual AOC is.
I give her very low marks and don’t assume she’ll even make runner-up in the contest. There have to be somebody higher.
Chelli Nobile
East Islip
So, AOC desires to change this nation. I can not recover from how she latches onto issues. She’s like one of these fish who attaches themselves to a shark — besides she connected herself to Bernie Sanders.
Does she not notice that what she says labels her as anti-American?
Tom Riccardi
Weston, Conn.
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