This socialist is now getting pushback and realizing that taxing is not always acceptable because people have limits, and they have been reached in NYC. Mamdani is a nobody, no experience, but a well-talking BS artist just like Obama. But reality is setting in, and the road forward for NYC will be difficult at best.
Will Gov. Hochul give the money? Maybe, but not before the November elections. That is a long time from now, and so much can happen in the interim. Socialism is a failed ideology, and we are about to see how it fails in NYC. This is what the clueless people voted for, and now they reap the consequences. All IMO.
“There’s thunder on the left for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Opposition is brewing in the liberal-leaning City Council to Hizzoner’s threat to raise taxes on New York City property owners unless Albany lawmakers approve a statewide tax boost. Feature today’s response by members of the council’s Black Caucus, who are up in arms over the “disproportionate harm” the mayor’s tax hike could have on “Black homeowners and working class families.”
The alarm by 15 members of the Black Caucus, a substantial bloc within the 51-member council, is a reminder that hostility to higher taxes transcends the typical divisions between right and left. The council members stress that Mr. Mamdani’s tax proposal comes at a time when New York’s “Black homeowners already face rising costs,” like higher insurance and maintenance expenses, not to mention “inflation driven increases in everyday necessities.”
The council members emphasize, too, that they represent “communities that have historically faced systemic disinvestment and economic inequities,” making a potential 9.5 percent increase in property taxes all the more damaging. The council members mark the hard-won gains that black New Yorkers have made in joining the homeowning ranks, writing in a statement today about “a long fought pathway toward economic equity.”