Mayor of New York Mamdani was elected with Socialist promises of free ice cream and a socialist utopia, with a solemn promise of making the rich pay for it. It only took 51 days for him to float the first tax increase on people who aren’t rich.
“This would effectively be a tax on working and middle class New Yorkers, who have a median income of $122,000,” he said
That amount of money is not much in New York. The people making $122k isn’t a lot of money. The proposed tax hike? A 9.5% increase in property taxes. This is why I keep saying New Yorkers need to stay there, and stop moving to Florida where they vote for more of the same policies that made them come here in the first place.
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Grumpy51 · February 21, 2026 at 9:14 am
I am a firm believer in limitations on the vote.
You move to a new state?? 3 years before allowed to vote in that state elections.
You move to a new city/town?? 5 years before allowed to vote in that city/town.
What does the above do?? Forces new-comers to become part of the local culture/structure to understand WHY things are the way they are. Also prevents people from flooding an area, voting trash, then moving on….. like locusts
Steve · February 21, 2026 at 11:44 am
That’s what I opened up the comments to post, too, @Grumpy51.
But I’m thinking more like 10 years to get a state/local ballot. Maybe 6 for federal Congressmen and 4 for President, those numbers selected based on term length, so they don’t move simply to screw with one particular elected official. And here’s the one that’s going to get everyone going — third generation immigrants. First gen are bipolar, those who wanted to be American, and those who wanted free stuff. Second gen tend to be worse in terms of radicalized, no matter which set their parents belong to. Third is when this all starts to peter out, IMO largely because they are rebelling against their 2nd gen radical parents.
It just takes time to grok the way things are done locally. See it in Wyoming all the time. Californians are largely not assimilating, but taking over.
Polimath · February 21, 2026 at 2:59 pm
Not only that but a 5 year moratorium on running for a seat or position in the political venue. This will stop carpetbaggers from running in and throwing the seats to the socialists.
Jester · February 21, 2026 at 9:03 pm
I do very much agree with you should be a resident of an area for say at least one complete election cycle. I find it funny that out here in Wyoming all the Democrats were totally against the Liz Cheney when she relocated out here, but suddenly when she went anti Trump they were all for her running for office against Harriet Hageman. I also think there is a lot to not perhaps being able to vote. Just look at states like New Mexico, Colorado and others. It really accelerated during the covid years with people relocating to get away from states like CA, NY, Mass, etc. And yet some how they think they can vote for something that’s only slightly less bad and be proud of it.
SiG · February 21, 2026 at 9:16 am
How long until someone says the communist takeover of NYC collapsed just because, “he didn’t do it right?”
Dear wife, a career electronics tech, after she retired from the space center volunteered to help out at one of those “free health care for the needy” places. The nurses regularly advocated communism and used that “they just didn’t do it right” argument over and over. That’s always the answer, and that’s because it’s impossible to do it right. It will never work.
it's just Boris · February 21, 2026 at 11:15 am
Not unless you can change human nature on a fundamental level.
The OG communists knew this … thus the “New Soviet Man” and embracing of Lysenkoism. (Of course, that brings us around to the whole “trying to mandate reality” thing.)
It's just Boris · February 21, 2026 at 9:23 am
So, let’s see how this is gonna play out.
“Oh, but only landlords are going to have to pay that…” So rents will need to go up accordingly.
“Oh, but rent control will keep the landlords from taking advantage and passing along…” So there goes the maintenance budget even lower.
“Oh, but the law says they have to maintain…” Or walk away in disgust. And it amazes me that more don’t do that. I just can’t see being an owner of property in NYC, especially residential.
So it gets just a little harder and less pleasant for the average New Yorker no matter how you slice it.
Steady Steve · February 21, 2026 at 3:40 pm
I see a lot of catastrophic building fires in the future.
Steve · February 21, 2026 at 11:57 am
Happening now in Chicago, @It’s Just Boris. One of the poster children is a building that sold for $130 million in 2015 (a down real estate point in Chicago already) just closed at $17 million.
Class A buildings have climbed to over 20% vacancy, which is a disaster, overall rate is at least 28%, and that’s not counting the buildings that have just been abandoned.
Steve S6 · February 21, 2026 at 11:59 am
You can take the migrant out of the shithole but you can’t take the shithole out of the migrant. Foreign or domestic.
@HomeInSC · February 21, 2026 at 9:03 pm
This little AI video is bloody brilliant. Sums up my attitude towards Mamdani pretty well. The character was created by some government grant to teach Brits how not to behave but it became popular in exactly the opposite way. Just search Amelia UK on youtube for more.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WK4xTvgHGw
Narrative control has limits.
Sod off, Paki wankers!
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