Last night New York City elected a Communist to serve as its new mayor, poised to take the helm in just a few weeks. I honestly cannot tell you how stunned I am to be writing those words. Not in a thousand years would I have ever thought it possible. Until now.
Zohran Mamdani is a 34-year-old, self-proclaimed Socialist who has never had a real job in his life, and lives in a $2,300-a-month rent-stabilized apartment, despite the fact that his parents are millionaires and he makes a 6-figure salary (off us tax payers). His “job” since 2021 is that of an Assemblyman in the NYS Legislature representing his sliver of Queens, for which he gets paid $142,000/year, plus per diems, plus cushy benefits. I would tell you that he only works 5 months and 1 week a year (because the NYS Legislature is only in session from January through the first week of June), but reports apparently show that Mamdani has missed the large majority of votes in Albany, so I’m not sure you can even say that he has been “working” to earn his tax-payer-funded salary much at all.
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Though a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Mamdani’s policies are communist to the core. In fact, he openly refers to his fellow DSA members in the Assembly as his “comrades”. Former NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio was a Socialist, and yet Mamdani makes De Blasio look like Ronald Reagan. Let’s briefly review what Mamdani openly promotes, as you conjure up an image in your mind of a caricature of Mamdani telling DeBlasio to hold his beer for him:
- Seizing the means of production (meaning the government will control all industry)
- Government-run grocery stores (which will undercut private stores’ already marginal profits whereby driving them out of business and putting the City in control of your food)
- Defunding the police (and largely replacing them with glorified social workers)
- Emptying prisons (after all, “Violence is an artificial construct”, says he)
- Freezing the rent (so that landlords cannot raise rents, not even to keep pace with skyrocketing maintenance costs of insurance, repairs, and general inflation)
- Abolishing private property ownership (which will come at an expedited basis as rents are frozen and costs explode)
- Increasing minimum wage to $30/hour (which will force businesses to fire employees and probably then fill the void with less costly AI)
- Providing FREE bus service (to the tune of upwards of $500,000,000/year)
- Providing FREE child care (see below)
- Legalizing prostitution (perhaps he’ll have those “sex service providers” watch the children in their spare time)
If Mamdani pushes through his “freebie” socialist utopia, it’s estimated to cost New Yorkers an additional $9 BILLION/year (on top of the already sickeningly bloated $117 billion annual budget). The kicker? He says he will pay for all of this through a wealth transfer program that will further tax big corporations and “the rich” at an even more increased percentage so that they are paying significantly more than all of his other constituents. Remember his pre-election rally last week in Queens where a stadium full of 10,000 people were chanting “Tax the rich!”… (So much for “fairness”, “equity” and “inclusion”).
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