Anonymous #8 12w

$30 minimum wage, free baby baskets for newborns, rent freeze in NYC, free bus fares, and government owned grocery stores.

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Anonymous #9 12w

I’m all for making things more affordable, but wouldn’t free bus fares make things worse? Do they not use those fares for maintenance and paying workers too? Also how does making grocery stores government owned benefit people?

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Anonymous #8 12w

apart from his policy which is very popular (socialism is more popular than people like to admit, most people hate the word more than the policies) dude is charismatic as helllllllll and just REALLY good at campaigning

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Anonymous #8 12w

Everyone pays a little for everyone to use. That's the principal of socialism.

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Anonymous #8 12w

true that’s what bus fares do, but the idea is that worker/maintenance funding can come from other tax sources, making public transit be a fully free public good it’s like how public parks pay ppl for upkeep, but that doesn’t mean you get charged just for going

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Anonymous #8 12w

Grocery stores are not going to be taken over by the government. Mamdani wants to open a new chain of government owned/subsidized grocery stores that can hopefully sell items for cheaper. This would save consumers money and create more competition in this sector. Although no one’s certain whether it will work or not.

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Anonymous #8 12w

also govt-owned grocery stores could offer affordable & healthy food in each borough. NYC already subsidizes private, profitable grocery chains, but the govt itself could operate them in locations business owners aren’t interested in. there’s more details about this if you’d like, all his cool stuff is on his website. basically, his campaign presented some exciting progressive policies in a really accessible way, which got a ton of ppl hyped in NYC and online

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Anonymous #13 12w

I thought he just wanted to give mom and pop shops like a stimulus check to keep them in business and not be run out of business by like Walmart.

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Anonymous #9 12w

Socialism is more than that though

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Anonymous #14 12w

That too!!

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Anonymous stethosc0pe 12w

As a Chicagoan we need the same energy here! I know it’ll never happen because of Windy City politics though

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Anonymous stethosc0pe 12w

I see what you mean. That would be helpful, but there would be people who’d be upset about paying additional taxes if they don’t use the service. Making groceries more affordable would be great, but there might be flaws too. I’ll try to check out his policies

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Anonymous #8 12w

To my knowledge the only tax raise is a 2% increase on the top 1% of NYC residents, everyone else should see a negative change if any.

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Anonymous #16 12w

They want it that way

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Anonymous #9 12w

Of course they do smh

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Anonymous #16 12w

Who should we elect people that keep pushing the same policies that got us to where we are?

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Anonymous #13 12w

We’re here BECAUSE of all the politicians we’ve had before who didn’t have policies like this, dumbass

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Anonymous #16 12w

Dawg my bad I’m illiterate atm but yeah I agree with you

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Anonymous #9 12w

You don’t understand how all that is absolutely terrible?

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Anonymous #10 12w

Trump doesn’t HATE New York? That place was literally his home for nearly 70 years

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Anonymous #8 12w

absolutely, def a good habit to look into benefits and drawbacks of any policy #15 is mostly right - it’s that 2% increase for the top 1%, plus raising the corporate tax rate. He also proposes ending no-bid contracts, hiring more tax auditors, and fining corrupt landlords.

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Anonymous #3 12w

Since he’s become Republican, oh yes he has

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Anonymous #8 12w

biggest criticism you’ll prob see is that tax increases will cause a mass exodus of the 1% and megacorps to lower tax zones this is overblown imo. they need to be in NYC to make their $$$. moving people/operations is costly itself, and equivalent income somewhere else isn’t guaranteed much of this comes from corporate advocates just fearmongering. they’ll never mention the loopholes they already use, and all the indirect + benefits of tax-funded transit, police, etc to the bottom line

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Anonymous #10 12w

yall should watch “The Apprentice” with Sebastian Stan. At least from that portrayal, he hates when he can’t exploit NYC. And now he loves shitting on (perceived or real) liberal losers like any other Republican

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Anonymous #8 12w

Put simply, I'm sure some people pay hundreds of dollars a week on bus fares. this and people who don't ride the bus are the extremes. So if everyone in the city who has metro service, and is taxed let's say $10 a year for bus fares, in exchange for them being "free" they're essentially paying the hundreds of dollars of one person and paying themselves a bus pass.

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Anonymous #21 12w

While we’re at it, fuck the Confederacy. America won

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Anonymous #8 12w

$1 into PT returns $3 in return

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Anonymous #8 12w

He has pretty detailed plans about how they’re going to raise the money to pay for it all. And they’re kind of simplifying the grocery store thing. His plane is to open government owned grocery stores in food deserts, places where people have poor access to food because big companies won’t expand there. he’s not going to nationalize regular grocery stores.

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Anonymous #19 12w

all of that is literally great

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Anonymous #24 12w

I missed something cuz why tf are you numbered 24 bro

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Anonymous #24 11w

Sounds great to you because you don’t understand anything past a surface level.

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Anonymous #19 11w

Kid, his plan costs half of what they’ve spent subsidizing for-profit grocery stores this year, and half of those don’t accept snap/ebt. You clearly don’t understand anything past surface level.

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Anonymous #19 11w

Found the kid who hasn’t learned about taxes yet 😂

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Anonymous #22 11w

I’m

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