The presumptive selection (pending the results of New York’s ranked-voting system) of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as the Democratic nominee has sent shockwaves throughout the business and political establishment. For those calling for the party to move more to the center, New Yorkers just responded with a Bronx cheer by choosing a socialist who wants city-run grocery stores, an eleven-percent city corporate tax rate, free child care, free buses, and other far-left wish list items. Real estate in Florida is about to skyrocket.
Mamdani has said that he intends to make New York a “model for the Democratic Party” by moving to the far left and embracing socialist policies. Despite being called anti-Israel, Mamdani crushed Andrew Cuomo with young college-educated voters.
Mamdani has advanced a decidedly anti-police agenda:
He also has a full panoply of progressive promises, including to pay for freezing rents, providing free child care, and other programs by “taxing the rich.” It is a return to the “eat the rich” calls of figures from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) to former mayor Bill de Blasio.
Politicians have long turned to the “Eat the rich!” battle cry when things are not working out politically or economically. When struggling in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pledged a wealth tax, declaring that she was coming after “the diamonds, the yachts, and the Rembrandts too.” Then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, another Democratic contender at the time, was barely registering in the polls when he promised that “we will tax the hell out of the wealthy.”
The election also reinforces the opposition of many to the move to restore the state and local tax (SALT) deductions, which forces taxpayers in low-tax states to subsidize residents in high-tax states, such as California and New York. By allowing the deductions, politicians can assure New Yorkers that they will receive some of the money back from the rest of the country through deductions, justifying even higher tax hikes. I have long opposed SALT deductions as a uniquely bad idea.
The question is whether wealthy individuals and corporations will accelerate the exit from New York in light of continued support for increasing tax burdens and public subsidies.
Eric Adams could still prevail over Mamdani as an independent in the general election. Cuomo has also not ruled out an independent run. However, the results of the election show the increasing hold of socialist politics on many New Yorkers.
madhamin can now join the Islamist Mayor of London Khan to herald in the islamic conquest of the West
Dan Bongino likes to ask; are things bad enough yet? Apparently not. I actually believe our country (citizens) will continue to flirt with socialism if they keep getting rescued from the full affect of their bad choices. With Mayors Bass, Johnson and Mamdani putting the tragic outcomes of socialism on full display from coast to coast, the GOP won’t need to do much more than feature those cities failures in campaign ads. Kind of like the 80’s anti-drug ad featuring a fried egg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFaDeRpSHA
Notice. It’s the blue states that have lost their minds
Does anyone know what happens to SNAP tax deductions if the BBB doesn’t pass?
Doubt it will a poor boob like you.
Problem is, they vote for his ilk then move to Florida when things get bad and then vote the same way there.
As a resident of Northern NY, I am of the belief that Trump needs to drop a few more bunker buster bombs to truly rid ourselves of our Islamic problems.
of the belief… what a heap of grammatically inept prose. Our Islamic problems, and what those be exactly? Hundreds of millions of Americans have no problem with Islam, why just you?
Read your history rather than the blather from the progs that says islam is a religion of peace. I do believe that the many annals of history will prove that they are, in fact, a miltary caste masquerading as a religion. Find one non-islamic nation that truly wants an islamic nation at its borders.
Hell, the singular reason that we have the USMC is that they were created to defend our nations boats (both private and national) from the Barbary pirates and they are called leathernecks simply because they wore the leather collars as a shield from being beheaded by those same islamic pirates. Jan Sobieski is a Polish hero for his charge of the Winged Hussars to save Vienna from the islamists. Which nations in the middle east sided with Hitler????
research before you make a fool of yourself, again.
Remembering the name of Sobiesky is impressive. Did you read the book the Gates of Vienna?
Actually, I became more intimately interested in this event by listening to one of my favorite power metal bands, Sabaton and their rendition of “The Winged Hussars” and that prompted me to research further on the subject.
Actually, I heard of it from my favorite power metal band, Sabaton with their song “The Winged Hussars” and I did some deeper research on the topic.
That is truly the biggest piece of willful ignorance I’ve seen in a long time. Centuries of killing prove that.
“what a heap of grammatically inept prose”
Is English your primary language? Is it even your second, or third? Because “grammar” and “content” or “meaning” are two entirely different attributes of written English. “Grammar” consists of the rules that determine correct sentence structure: crudely, how parts of speech must be used to make a sentence. A sentence is either grammatically correct, or incorrect, there is no middle ground, and whimsicalmama’s sentence was error-free. Your statement, and the reasoning behind it, however, are as erroneous as teats on a man.
I have often wondered over the last several decades what it is about our major metropolitan cities that causes the citizens to choose Dems to run their cities. Even in red states like Texas, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso are Dem run cities. I have never quite understood that correlation.
Colorado and Denver.
“Colorado and Denver.”
That was once true, but recently, far more of Colorado than Denver is circling the blue drain. I think it is jsut another example of the totally irrational process where people move to a city, state, or region to get away from the insanity that had developed where they were living, and then waste as little time as possible recreating the identical insanities in their new location.
Welfare and academics, A TOXIC COMBO
The Democrats show their true colors, Socialist, as well as being Corrupt. They love illegals, criminals etc. their voters/supporters. Any major business in NY should move out ASAP.
Well, in the last few years there has been a veritable pipeline of businesses and money moving south. The business climate has fueled a boom for Florida, and has driven growth in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and, of course, Texas. Even when nations such as France, or the UK, or Sweden tried this you found out something else about the rich and that is that they are incredibly mobile and they leave.
Chicago did not learn and went from Mayor Lightfoot to the even more radical Mayor Johnson. Chicago looks even less appealing now.
As people leave and they take their money with them, the new places start to grow their universities, their symphonies, their museums and the quality of life moves higher. California is a case in point also. The mismanagement of the state has driven the film industry almost everywhere else. The internet and modern electronics are perfect for the multipolar country. You can live almost anywhere you want and still be in contact, work from home, consult and conference with anywhere. You can live in Miami and read x-rays, CT’s and MRI’s from all over the country, as well as biopsies, consult on records, research libraries on line and never leave your home office. Your politics may not change but very likely your children’s will.
Certain businesses require concentration of workers but many do not. As a port, New York is losing to Savannah, Charleston, Miami, New Orleans, Mobile. Kind of see a trend there.
There are plenty of states out there who want to pick New York’s pocket and have the will to do it.
I hope the people of New York make a good decision in the general election. It has been and can still be a great city but it requires reasonable and enlightened government. Nobody is too big to fail
What happens when there’s nowhere left to run? Election integrity laws would cure a lot of this nonsense. Now, I just hope they find out the hard way, sort of like Iran but without the actual bunker busters.
veritable pipeline of businesses … making shit up again eh old senile one.
Outmigration cost California $24B in departed incomes as poorer people move in
“304 companies have left California since January 2019, according to the California Policy Center’s California Book of Exoduses, which tracks corporate exits from California.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/outmigration-cost-california-24b-departed-incomes-poorer-people-move
GEB is not making anything up. The failed state of CA’s own California Policy Center’s California Book of Exoduses says he is correct.
Mandami is an opportunist with young opportunists. They’ll come to nothing once they hit the brick wall of greed. Buraq did.
My 🍿 is done. …
All good points. The beauty of Federalism! Through competition among states and cities, Federalism over time restrains the states and cities if we let it.
Yes, incredibly mobile.
Trying to think of another city that might be a “model for the Democratic Party” and I can’t come up with one that I’d want to live in.
well Republicans NEED TO END Federal Aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges/students
cut SNAP by 90%
Ban Public Unions
Defund Democrats….Then let Capitalism TEACH THEM!
..one of the highlights of the Dem Party debates for President in 2020 was when Mike Bloomberg (..let’s not forget he won as a Republican for NYC Mayor…) said to Bernie Sanders ‘I never knew a Socialist who owned 3 houses….” ..a big question to-day is why are our schools producing young adults who can’t see that the Sanders-AOC-Mamdani model is ‘la la land…’
NYC needs a very big dose of The Persistence—@ScotPresler where are you????
He’s basically a normal Democrat with a much larger appetite. It’s really easy spending other people’s money
City-run grocery stores? This should be entertaining to watch.
“Back to the USSR boy, you don’t know how lucky you are.” NYC looks like they want to find out how well socialism works.
LOL, think crime is bad now. Just wait
If the feds don’t swoop in to bail out his silly rear end.
Soviet style empty shelves long lines.
The stores well be robbed of everything soon.
“Here’s the radioactive material you wanted. Have fun!” ~ Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Ruler of Iran
Can Rudy run again? 🙏
and the exodus begins
We’ll finally get to see “real socialism”!
NY is about to become a bigger mess than Diddy’s apartment after a party!
“Mamdani crushed Andrew Cuomo with young college-educated voters.” This is what the Democratic Party has wrought through the transformation of our higher education system. A perverse and CLEARLY debunked theory of societal organization is now a religious belief (because it depends on faith, not facts) among our best educated future generations. Think about that.
Democrats parents: you done good. \sarc
““Mamdani “crushed Andrew Cuomo with young college-educated voters.””
“Mamdani crushed Andrew Cuomo with young college-INDOCTRINATED voters.”
Corrected to be a far more accurate rendition of reality…
Yep, a magical gubm’nt that makes all of your dreams come true …….. it has become the religion of the left.
only if we CUT off Federal Aid
Look at a place like Camden NJ voting Democrats for 60 years….Their high school 2% are proficient at reading, 0% at math.
It gets 90% of its funding from other taxpayers!
END FEDERAL AID….currently the worse they make the MORE MONEY THEY GET!
WOW that sounds just like Oregon.
“Look at a place like Camden NJ voting Democrats for 60 years”
And the Camden County power brokers, the Norcross family, have of course become filthy rich in the process on sending Camden County down the porcelain convenience…
OMG, thats a great comment.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken
Just my gut feeling but I believe they just guaranteed the election of the Republican candidate, or perhaps one of the other leading candidates running as an independent.
Gordy
In NY??? I would say no. But it will be fun to watch their down fall.
I’m a Republican who has lived in NY for decades. Our state
Party chairman, Ed Ccx must be asleep at the wheel! It’s time to take the DNC machine down!
Like Chairman Whatley is doing any better? I ask you, what the heck has HE done, if anything? Why did the president even appoint this slacker? The Democrats have a 18% favorability rating and this absolute maroon disappears rather than buying a nail gun to seal up their coffin with a million silver nails?
The new mayor will sure do that, and soon if he tries to do what he has said.
Dustoff, I was born in New York City. It is a remarkable place though often governed by incompetents. I moved out many decades ago but still maintain an apartment so I can return when needed. Rents are high, and now the Democratic mayoral candidate is proposing a rent freeze. This policy has been tried before and contributed to the city’s slide toward bankruptcy in the 1970s. Construction halted, and many landlords abandoned their properties, leaving the city to manage approximately 100,000 housing units. Given its inefficiency as a manager, the city eventually returned many of those buildings to their former owners or transferred them to other entities. The housing supply declined, and rental prices increased.
Strangely, the city thrived under Giuliani, a Republican mayor. Yet New Yorkers continue to lean left as if they actively seek more hardship.
S.
We now have rent control in WA state. I was born and raised in San Diego. It’s not the city I grew up in… Dang shame.
I was in college with a nice guy from upstate NY. He told me many sad stories of NY city as time went by
NYC is full of wonderful stories as well. If you haven’t visited, do so. Just be careful figuring out where you want to go. It’s a walking city with interesting things on almost every block if you know how to look. Talking about it makes me want to go, and I just might for ten days or so, though right now it is too hot.
“NYC is full of wonderful stories as well. If you haven’t visited, do so.”
I have visited frequently, although not recently. Before I retired, the shortest route to company HQ in southern CT was over the GWB. I won’t return until NY decides to honor my carry permit, and/or the weather turns cool enough to wear my body armor. Especially if this DamnedNanny 1d10t gets in office. While crime is more prevalent in certain sections of the city, it is in no way, shape, or form confined to those sections. There is nothing there that I have not already seen or experienced that is worth the risk. YMMV.
“This policy has been tried before ”
Wasn’t that under Red Koch?
John Lindsay
I had blissfully forgotten Lindsay…
NYC seems to want to copy Chicago’s descent into socialist Hell.
Curtis Sliwa is the Republican and an excellent person but it’s unimaginable that a Republican can get elected in NYC.
Eric Adams, the current Mayor, is running as an independent. He’s had some issues, but has by far the best chance.
Especially if Trump endorses him?🤔
That could be a tough call for Trump. Sliwa is that candidate whose record and positions aligns best with Trump’s espoused values, by far. Adams is the only candidate with views that Trump would likely not find totally repugnant with a realistic chance to win, endorsement or no. Given the probability of defeat of his endorsed candidate either way, my guess that Trump stays out of it.
“I believe they just guaranteed the election of the Republican candidate”
Based on a lifetime of observing NYC politics, I reluctantly conclude that you are wrong about any prospective Republican victory. If Eric Adams continues to run as an Independent, I guess there is an outside chance that he might pull it off, but I suspect the Dems have enough dirty laundry type allegations to dump on him over the short term to prevent that from happening. NTM that Damned Mammy is supported by Alexandria Occasional Cortex, who inexplicably seems to still be beloved by many NYC voters. For us in PRNJ (The People’s Republic of New Jersey, for any who are unaware), this is a double-edged sword. On one hand, if/when this Damned Mammy Marxist is elected Mayor NYC, many businesses there will stupidly relocate just over the Hudson River, instead of bailing to Florida, Texas, or some other truly business-friendly locale. That may well significantly increase NJ short to medium term tax revenues, which will allow our current slighter lighter weight socialists in power additional time before they run this state completely into the ground, thereby forestalling their own day of reckoning (the other hand). So, if this plays out as I expect, most of us here will enjoy paying slightly lower taxes than we would otherwise for a few years, but will probably experience an ever more intense collectivist dystopia before any meaningful correction can occur. In the meantime, we can at least enjoy the entertaining spectacle of a real-life “Escape From New York” happening on our door step…
Paterson, NJ is flirting with instituting Sharia Law. New Jersey is its own Circle of Hell.
“New Jersey is its own Circle of Hell.”
I have now obtained two consecutive NJ concealed carry permits. You have no clue just how hellacious bureaucracy can be unless you have gone through that process…
The legal issues reflected the Democratic Party’s characteristic use of lawfare. This this time it was directed at a fellow Democrat who had the audacity to deviate from prevailing party orthodoxy. Look at how Democrat orthodoxy causes Democrats to drag RFK through the mud,
“Look at how Democrat orthodoxy causes Democrats to drag RFK through the mud”
Since there is very little doubt that they were complicit in whacking his uncle, that should come as no surprise. Man organizations are very hostile to members who refuse to conform to tenets in which they do not believe. The actions resulting from that hostility may vary.