Vile to stand outside a private citizen's home to attack him with a direct threat to his interests and implicit threat to his security. Griffin has done far more good for NYC than Mamdani will ever do and this is his thanks from New York's hateful mayor. Attacking him is both stupid and evil. NYC's tax base is highly mobile and it will leave, not just because the most productive businesses and their owners are taxed to death but also because they are treated like the enemy as if they are what's wrong with society. At some point, you tire of subsidizing people who hate you.
weren’t 20% of NYC residents going to move away the night Mamdani was elected?
“You get tired of subsidizing”
Taxes aren't subsidization, they're a user fee. Without taxes the infrastructure wouldn't exist for that wealthy person to have wealth in the first place.
Additionally, a full third of billionaires were born into wealth, so it's not like it's even wealth they generated from their own merit in those cases. They were just born into a race where they hold the starter pistol and everyone else has been outfitted with earplugs.
History also shows us there are much more severe national and global consequences to unaddressed runaway income inequality than there is by people who are very wealthy being made slightly less very wealthy.
People have been moving away for years and it's accelerating. Decline takes time. But it's also hard to reverse.
> It's the user fee for infrastructure.
This is mostly false. New York infrastructure costs 20x to build what it does anywhere else. By coet it's 5% a use fee, 95% subsidies for unionized city workers and consultants.
I believe that here you are attributing to Mamdani and his supporters something which is in fact much broader. When I think of a politician who ran on an aggressive populist platform, promising massive change most experts deemed impossible, but upon his victory began making minor adjustments and touting them as the beginning of a new era…I think of first term Donald Trump.
Perhaps the participation trophy disease spread to the boomers as well. Or perhaps more likely, there is an enormous number of people who like the idea of radical change much more than its reality. Shrewd politicians understand this act accordingly. Promising revolution on the campaign trail, delivering status quo in office.
Mamdani delivers on a policy that NYC Democrats have been touting but unable to enact for the last 15 years but that only warrants a participation trophy? For consistency purposes, I hope you also gave Obama a participation trophy in 2010 for passing the ACA.
Vile to stand outside a private citizen's home to attack him with a direct threat to his interests and implicit threat to his security. Griffin has done far more good for NYC than Mamdani will ever do and this is his thanks from New York's hateful mayor. Attacking him is both stupid and evil. NYC's tax base is highly mobile and it will leave, not just because the most productive businesses and their owners are taxed to death but also because they are treated like the enemy as if they are what's wrong with society. At some point, you tire of subsidizing people who hate you.
weren’t 20% of NYC residents going to move away the night Mamdani was elected?
“You get tired of subsidizing”
Taxes aren't subsidization, they're a user fee. Without taxes the infrastructure wouldn't exist for that wealthy person to have wealth in the first place.
Additionally, a full third of billionaires were born into wealth, so it's not like it's even wealth they generated from their own merit in those cases. They were just born into a race where they hold the starter pistol and everyone else has been outfitted with earplugs.
History also shows us there are much more severe national and global consequences to unaddressed runaway income inequality than there is by people who are very wealthy being made slightly less very wealthy.
People have been moving away for years and it's accelerating. Decline takes time. But it's also hard to reverse.
> It's the user fee for infrastructure.
This is mostly false. New York infrastructure costs 20x to build what it does anywhere else. By coet it's 5% a use fee, 95% subsidies for unionized city workers and consultants.
Are we criticizing Mamdani for being ineffective and not achieving his goals? We should be thanking him for that.
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
I believe that here you are attributing to Mamdani and his supporters something which is in fact much broader. When I think of a politician who ran on an aggressive populist platform, promising massive change most experts deemed impossible, but upon his victory began making minor adjustments and touting them as the beginning of a new era…I think of first term Donald Trump.
Perhaps the participation trophy disease spread to the boomers as well. Or perhaps more likely, there is an enormous number of people who like the idea of radical change much more than its reality. Shrewd politicians understand this act accordingly. Promising revolution on the campaign trail, delivering status quo in office.
Mamdani delivers on a policy that NYC Democrats have been touting but unable to enact for the last 15 years but that only warrants a participation trophy? For consistency purposes, I hope you also gave Obama a participation trophy in 2010 for passing the ACA.