There is a week left before the New York City mayoral election. Mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani remains in the lead, although his opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is closing the gap. Unfortunately, Mamdani seems ready to win, despite all the problems he has. Lack of experience and radical positions. His anti-police and anti-Israel comments. That fake car salesman smile. This statement about his “aunt” raised questions and dissatisfaction among New Yorkers.
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Scott Pinsker on our sister site PJ Media makes a point that New Yorkers can't be deterred by some of these negativity. But they may be put off by the false question: “What if there’s nothing real about it at all?”
Now let's combine this thought with what former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just said. told The Times of London. De Blasio was one of the first to support Mamdani. These are numbers given how left-leaning de Blasio is. But now, a week before the election, he's just raised a pretty significant issue.
De Blasio has since reviewed Mamdani's proposals and concluded the amounts don't work.
“While the ambition is admirable, the cost estimate, which reportedly tops $7 billion a year, is based on optimistic assumptions … of eliminating waste and raising revenue through new taxes,” de Blasio told The Times.. “In my opinion, the mathematics does not hold up and the political obstacles are significant.”
Oh. Don't you say? I think it was important to mention this earlier. Who could have guessed it…except everyone on the right. But the important thing is that de Blasio is raising this issue now. And this concerns exactly the problem that Pinsker spoke about.
Mamdani proposes all kinds of free things, including “free buses, universal child care, city grocery stores, a rent freeze and education reform that his campaign estimates will cost about $10 billion a year.”
So how is he going to pay for it? He proposes “a 2 percent tax increase on those earning more than $1 million a year, as well as raising the corporate tax rate to 11.5 percent.”
How can he make these things go away? This is probably what de Blasio meant when he said that “the political obstacles will be significant.”
Many of Mamdani's proposals also depend on tax increases, measures that would require approval from Albany politicians and Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor who has repeatedly ruled out raising taxes on businesses and high earners. Hochul recently said she may seek alternative funding for some priorities, such as universal child care, without raising taxes.
Again, we think there is a discrepancy here. But these are Democrats. New York Governor Kathy Hochul supported Mamdani. His plans are based on raising taxes. But she excluded taxes. So it doesn't make much sense, so why does she support him?
He sells you the Brooklyn Bridge and hopes you'll buy it.
This is simply a matter of funding plans, not even the problematic nature of what he proposes.
Larry Summers, a Harvard economist and former US Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, accused Mamdani in July of promoting “Trotskyist economic policies.”
This is coming from a Clinton guy, so he's hardly a right-wing thinker.
Use some common sense, New Yorkers.
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