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.
  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    1. Not having a government leads directly into a violent government

    2. Many countries do this task quite well.

    • youcantreadthis@quokk.auEnglish
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      2 months 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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        2 months ago

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

          • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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            2 months ago

            If Wikipedia were the sole organization operating within a territory and they decided what people were allowed to do in that territory, then yes they’d abso-fucking-lutely be the government.

            • youcantreadthis@quokk.auEnglish
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              2 months ago

              So what if there isn’t that and everyone kind of gets a say

              You know that’s not even how government worked for most of history right that’s super recent and like newer than steam engine real politics is complicated

              That’s not even how modern us government works