Why are we saying that Mamdani getting funds from the state is a bad thing? Hasn’t NYC subsidized the rest of the state while getting little in return from them in the past?
These centrists want him to hand that cash over to billionaires instead, obviously, like Biden, Obama, and Clinton did. The notion of one’s taxes being used for the citizens own benefit is scary to them.
I kid.
What they want is for Mamdani to be as shitty as they and the people they vote for are so they can feel better in telling us that better things aren’t possible.
This works on an intra-state level and interstate level. Usually the poorer, rural areas of a state require financial assistance to support their people that comes from the higher taxes and earnings cities make. From there states that don’t have strong metropolitan centers with a lot of business and money flow require cash flows from those that do in order to support themselves. No one in those poorer states will admit to it because it also kills the self sufficient by nature image they have of themselves.
No no no. You see, urban centers generating all the wealth and then giving that wealth to the apple pie loving rugged individualists in suburban-pretending-to-be-rural areas is the natural order. Any change to this system is unAmerican, evil, greedy city fatcats out fatcatting it up like a bunch of commies. /s
Hasn’t NYC subsidized the rest of the state while getting little in return from them in the past?
I mean, yes, because NYC is where the money is. Manhattan is full of millionaires, and most of Upstate is either farmland or abandoned company towns that have spent the last three decades trying to rebuild after Kodak/Xerox/GE packed up and moved out.
You also can’t blame someone for not reading every comment on every post in the community.
It’s the otherway around sunshine: I am trying to garner how much pelespirit, you, and 21 of you know about how rich people keep their money.
tax on second houses, which is a tax on the rich.
Blackrock & Vanguard do not own homes. Yet they own every company in the . If Mamdani wanted to actually go after the actual rich of NYC, he’d be targeting their industries.
Is there a reason why you place strawmen interpretations when trying to actualize meaningful progress?
Mamdani’s actions in the first few months of his mayorship have been one of the few bright spots of meaningful progress we have seen in the past decade.
In his city, he can make it both illegal to do so, and use that liquidity for state projects.
Citation needed
Better to try where it actually penalizes the rich, than people with actual needs of secondary homes.
This is rich. Somehow Mamdani is not going hard enough against the money and also he is picking on the poor and downtrodden who own Million dollar flats that they don’t even live in.
Dis guy on a roll.
Not really, he decided not to tax the rich and instead, took funds from the state (that could serve the poor) to prevent raising taxes on the rich.
You mean reclaiming a higher percentage of New Yorker’s tax dollars for New Yorkers?
NYC pays more in taxes to the state than it recieves. Seems fair they get more money back for their community
But billionaires owning second homes do not pay anywhere near an appropriate amount of taxes
He did increase taxes on second homes. What are you even talking about? Could it have been a higher tax? Sure, but let’s not pretend it’s nothing
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/mayor-mamdani-new-york-pied-terre-property-tax-real-estate.html
I’m sorry he’s making the lives of his constituents better in a way you don’t approve of?
Why are we saying that Mamdani getting funds from the state is a bad thing? Hasn’t NYC subsidized the rest of the state while getting little in return from them in the past?
These centrists want him to hand that cash over to billionaires instead, obviously, like Biden, Obama, and Clinton did. The notion of one’s taxes being used for the citizens own benefit is scary to them.
I kid.
What they want is for Mamdani to be as shitty as they and the people they vote for are so they can feel better in telling us that better things aren’t possible.
This works on an intra-state level and interstate level. Usually the poorer, rural areas of a state require financial assistance to support their people that comes from the higher taxes and earnings cities make. From there states that don’t have strong metropolitan centers with a lot of business and money flow require cash flows from those that do in order to support themselves. No one in those poorer states will admit to it because it also kills the self sufficient by nature image they have of themselves.
No no no. You see, urban centers generating all the wealth and then giving that wealth to the apple pie loving rugged individualists in suburban-pretending-to-be-rural areas is the natural order. Any change to this system is unAmerican, evil, greedy city fatcats out fatcatting it up like a bunch of commies. /s
I mean, yes, because NYC is where the money is. Manhattan is full of millionaires, and most of Upstate is either farmland or abandoned company towns that have spent the last three decades trying to rebuild after Kodak/Xerox/GE packed up and moved out.
Can’t get blood from a stone.
Because he ran on taxing the rich than chickened out
How is taxing second homes not a tax on rich people?
I hope you’re kidding.
Explain exactly what you mean with sources. No offense.
Not Akh, but did you really miss our /c/ources?
Second one isn’t a source, and first one literally says he implemented a tax on second houses, which is a tax on the rich. I don’t know what you mean.
You also can’t blame someone for not reading every comment on every post in the community.
It’s the otherway around sunshine: I am trying to garner how much pelespirit, you, and 21 of you know about how rich people keep their money.
Blackrock & Vanguard do not own homes. Yet they own every company in the
. If Mamdani wanted to actually go after the actual rich of NYC, he’d be targeting their industries.
Also, liquidate private equity entirely.
“He hasn’t cleared the impossibly high bar I set so obviously he is trash”
Mamdani cannot liquidate private equity.
Targeting industry might or might not be possible for a mayor. NY has the most powerful mayor in the country but that doesn’t make him all powerful.
Is there a reason why you place strawmen interpretations when trying to actualize meaningful progress?
In his city, he can make it both illegal to do so, and use that liquidity for state projects.
Better to try where it actually penalizes the rich, than people with actual needs of secondary homes.
Is there a reason why you place strawmen interpretations when trying to actualize meaningful progress?Mamdani’s actions in the first few months of his mayorship have been one of the few bright spots of meaningful progress we have seen in the past decade.
Citation needed
This is rich. Somehow Mamdani is not going hard enough against the money and also he is picking on the poor and downtrodden who own Million dollar flats that they don’t even live in.