Mayor Mamdani’s spending frenzy will lead NYC into a rapid decline
NY Post
Truth be told, I thought it would take at least one budget cycle for our socialist boy-wonder mayor to implode in a sea of idiocy over how he plans to govern this city and how he intends to pay for it.
The fact that it’s happening even before his first budget is finished — with an absurd debate over raising taxes on rich people who are already leaving the city in droves or socking it to working-class homeowners through higher property taxes — is downright scary.
It’s a big red warning sign that this mayor is so fundamentally unfit for the job of governing Gotham that Gov. Hochul should remove him from office before he destroys what’s left of the city’s economy.
That’s not going to happen, of course, and not just because those emergency powers held by the governor have been invoked just once — when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took steps to fire a corrupt mayor named Jimmy Walker back in 1932.
Hochul is also part of the problem we face here in the Big Apple and the rest of the state.
She may be talking a good game about cutting rather than raising taxes to preserve what’s left of the city’s economy that hasn’t decamped to Florida for its sunny weather and low taxes.
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