Mamdani announced that in order to deal with the NYC budget property taxes would have to increase 10%.
Lol
He said it was Hochul's fault because she declined to raise taxes on "the wealthy".
I certainly wish that I could just demand my employer give me a 10% raise so that I don't have to trim my budget.
But it goes to show that for these neo-socialists, your money belongs to them. Your property belongs to them.
You would think that if the NYC government has so much debt that they would zero out the entire city budget and start from scratch. Start with absolute essential services: Police, Transit, Sanitation. Then any city owned and operated hospitals. Then perhaps DOT.
After that, what's left is apportioned by impact on operating the city. That means a whole lot of pet projects that have been bloating the government get axed. Of course there would be a lot of complaining by those who leach off the taxpayers but so be it. If what they do is so important then the public will freely pay out of pocket for whatever they do.
They'll eventually figure out they can't tax their way out of the systemic problem. The only question is how much damage will be done before they realize it.
Oh and, a large portion of that shortfall? Blowing money on illegal aliens. Didn't have to happen but you know, Orange man bad.
