http://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/02/17/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-looking-at-54-billion-budget-gap-and-two-paths-n2425120
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) ~ Today, I’m releasing the City’s preliminary budget. After years of fiscal mismanagement, we’re staring at a $5.4 billion budget gap — and two paths.
One: Albany can raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and the most profitable corporations and address the fiscal imbalance between our city and state.
The other, a last resort: balance the budget on the backs of working people using the only tools at the City's disposal.
The first path matches a structural crisis with a sustainable and fair solution. I know where I stand.
New Yorkers voted for bold change and competent leadership. We will deliver both, and we look forward to partnering with Albany to protect working New Yorkers.
Socialists are such serial fantasists ... and to add to this tragic comedy (or comical tragedy?) ... Mamdani is an inexperienced child with delusions of grandeur. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG, HERE, EH?! BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Okay, Baby Zohran ... go ahead and raise massive taxes on the "ultra-wealthy and the most profitable corporations" in New York so you can hand out goodies to your peeps to buy votes. What do you think is going to happen, man-child? Productive, successful individuals and profitable corporations are already fleeing New York ... your confiscatory taxes are simply going to accelerate that exodus exponentially. And then, your tax base will be decimated, you will run out of other people's money, and your hopes of finally producing the world's first Socialist Nirvana will collapse just as such fevered fantasies have in the past, you infantile nincompoop.
What a shock. His plan is for the entire state to raise taxes on not millionaires or billionaires, but the "ultra-wealthy" (whatever that means) and the most profitable corporations. Is it possible there's a third path he's not seeing? Maybe cut spending?
No, no, no ... cost cutting does NOT coincide with lavishly enriching himself and generously greasing the palms of his comrades.
Hmmm ... enter some impeccably accurate prognosticators. Their number is legion.
Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) ~ Enjoy the shrinking tax base.
The Dank Knight (@capeandcowell) ~
Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary (@Minnesota_DHS) ~ Wow. Is it possible that Zohran Mamdami is as bad as Tim Walz?
🐺 (@LeighWolf) ~ $5 billion you say?
MAZE (@mazemoore) ~ Wait are the food and bus rides still free?
American AF (@iAnonPatriot) ~ I WANT MY FREE BUS RIDE, ZOHRAN!
Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) ~ How exactly is infinitely raising taxes on an ever widening and broadening definition of “ultra wealthy” going to be a “sustainable and fair” solution?
Clinton (@614clinton) ~ Or option 3: Stop wasteful spending and ripping off the people through fraudulent programs designed for kickbacks and lower taxes.
Lisa (@politeracy) ~ Or, he could do what responsible adults do when they face a shortfall - tighten their belts. NYC has a spending problem.
David Santa Carla (@TheOnlyDSC) ~ I don’t think free grocery stores and lawyers for illegals was as popular as you thought it’d be.
Curtis Johnson (@cjohnson999) ~ A classic presentation of a false choice. You could spend less and, you could incentivize business to increase the top line. But, you don't propose these because your power comes from class envy.
Greg Lapointe (@LakeFarmRiver) ~ Balance your own budget vs. asking the state taxpayers to bail you out. Wait, you have never had a real job. Oh ...
We The Translators (@RyGuyFly25) ~ You’re the mayor of a city, not a state. You don’t get to tell New York or Albany what to do.
TheVesuvian (@TheVesuvian) ~ Democrats and Socialists could always try and spend less money. That’s always an option.
But it's going to cost a lot of money to come through with all of the free stuff Mamdani promised during his campaign. He's already looking to Albany to bail the city out?
Polymarket (@Polymarket) ~ JUST IN: "We are forced to raid the rainy day fund, the retiree health benefits trust reserve, and to increase property taxes" — NYC Mayor Mamdani
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/2023862494138429511
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