Wednesday, June 25, 2025

How bad is Zohran Mamdani for New York?

Let us count the ways - Charles Fain Lehman
  • If elected, the New York Sun reported, Mamdani plans to spend $65 million on “gender-affirming care.”
  • He also promised to investigate New York hospitals that have stopped providing the services, fearing the Trump administration’s wrath, 
  • and create an “Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs” at City Hall...
  • Mamdani wants to cut New York’s sky-high housing costs..by stacking the Rent Guidelines Board with cronies who will follow through on his promise to “freeze the rent.”...
  • He wants to deal with food costs and the prevalence of “food deserts” by creating government-run grocery stores...
  • Mamdani wants to pay for all this by taxing New York’s rich. It’s a line straight from Mamdani endorser Bernie Sanders. But millionaires already pay 41% of the state’s income taxes, and the city in particular is dependent on the jobs brought by the big corporations Mamdani wants to tax...



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