Mayor Mamdani says he has balanced NYC's budget, will not raise property taxes
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday his team has balanced the budget, closing a gap of more than $12 billion that he says he inherited.
  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    25 days ago

    when I’m Governor, the stealing stops. I’ll cut your taxes, slash your utility bills in half, and put your hard-earned money back where it belongs – in your pocket, not Mamdani’s."

    Exactly what Trump said. Exactly what every MAGA/Republican has said for 50 years. And yet, here we are, and none of those promises have EVER happened for anyone but the very wealthy.

    • Züri@lemmy.ml
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      24 days ago

      Well. When they speak, they don’t speak to the people. But to the very wealthy. Many people do not get that detail.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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        25 days ago

        It doesn’t solve the underlying problem of wealth disparity. You can keep chopping day after day, year after year, but the inevitable solution is going to be: take the wealth and redistribute it. AKA Taxes.

        • youcantreadthis@quokk.auEnglish
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          25 days ago

          If you give them all free baskets for their heads long enough you will be fine taxes require a government those don’t seem to be doing good at this

            • youcantreadthis@quokk.auEnglish
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              24 days ago

              Plenty of places have little or no government and no billionaires even with States actively trying to fight the idea. Government is only one way of organizing and not a very good or egalitarian one

              • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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                24 days ago

                If you “organize” a nation full of people to decide on the “rules”, then that is “government” writing the “laws”.

  • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    “If 1% of your population is paying 45% of your tax revenue…” then they should be turned into paste. What world does this guy billionaire live in?

  • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    “we balanced the budget without needing to raise municipal taxes… by raising your state taxes”

      • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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        24 days ago

        Yes I’m aware, it was literally a sarcastic comment, not a brain-dead take.

        When the state tax coffers are covering a 4 billion dollar municipal deficit, and the state coffers are disproportionately funded by NYC residents, it’s just a case of the left hand stealing from the right pocket. There is still a 4 billion dollar deficit, it’s just being paid for by either a different tax revenue stream, or budget cuts to a different set of services

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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      25 days ago

      Yes they exchanged a tax that increases per square foot for a tax that increases based on income.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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      24 days ago

      Police have a lot of leverage power.

      Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”

      …

      aaaaaaand they’ll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not… which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”

        So fun fact, when the police did that in NYC for a few weeks during De Blasio’s term everyone was better off for it. Then instead of taking that leverage and cutting the NYPD budget in half, they went ahead and gave them everything they asked for anyway.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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        24 days ago

        Cut their funding in half and see how much power they have.

        They are superfluous. That’s kinda the point. We don’t need them to respond to calls. Give half their funding to other people without guns to respond to calls.

      • Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        24 days ago

        Wasn’t Mamdani saying the whole campaign that he promised to keep the NYPD budget in return for the NYPD refocusing on violent crime and the NYPD leadership staying? If he pissed off the entire NYPD things would probably be more expensive.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          24 days ago

          It doesn’t matter what he said, he’s kind of at the mercy of (shitty) police unions.

          Just look at how they responded when de Blasio dared to level even the most tepid criticism.