Ut oh.
NY state Dem Socialist Zohran Mamdani, now running for Mayor, was born in Kampala, Uganda, and "says" he moved to NYC when he was seven. He is Muslim and has lots of Muslim friends......who vote.
Posted on 03/19/2025 7:35:19 PM PDT by kevcol
So it's not an entirely new idea being proposed here by New York State representative and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The Democratic Socialist put out a video explaining his plan to reduce price gouging — government-owned and run grocery stores in the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
Ut oh.
NY state Dem Socialist Zohran Mamdani, now running for Mayor, was born in Kampala, Uganda, and "says" he moved to NYC when he was seven. He is Muslim and has lots of Muslim friends......who vote.
Another Government Supremacist.
What a great idea! Why has no one tried this before?
/s
🙄😶😀😁😂😂🤣🤣😅😎
Straight out of the 1926 Bolshevik playbook...
That certainly turned out well.../s
wiki-—The “everything free” Mamdani is running on freezing rent and building housing for working families, fast and fare-free buses for riders, and free childcare for all New Yorkers.[31] He also said he wants the government to run five grocery stores in the city - one in each borough.
Mamdani started to consider himself a democratic socialist following the 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.[16] He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States.[33]
Mamdani is running on creating free, universal childcare for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old, as well as increasing the wages for childcare workers.[34] He also has proposed giving all new families in New York City “baby baskets” with baby products, such as diapers and nursing supplies.[35][36]
Mamdani believes that to increase public safety, what is needed is “dignified work, economic stability, and well-resourced neighborhoods,” rather than policing and prisons.[37] He supports defunding the police.[38] He is also in favor of completely eliminating cash bail.[39]
He is in favor of dismantling what he refers to as “mass incarceration in New York” by opposing the construction of new state prisons and jails, divesting from the New York prison system, and investing in jobs, services, and restorative justice approaches.”[11] Mamdani also supports the abolition of felony disenfranchisement, allowing those with felonies to vote.
Mamdani introduced a bill to eliminate New York University’s and Columbia University’s tax exempt status and direct those funds towards underfunded public universities.[40]
Mamdani would halt rent increases for all two million rent-stabilized New Yorkers as mayor of NYC by appointing new members to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board.[41]
As a New York State assembly member, he has supported capping rent increases for New Yorkers, stopping unjust evictions,[42] giving tenants the right to legal representation in housing court,[43] and creating a Social Housing Development Agency that would build publicly-owned affordable housing.[44][45]
Early in 2023, Mamdani introduced a bill called the “Not on our dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act” which would prohibit registered charities from donating to organizations that support Israeli settlers.[46][24] In November 2023, Zohran joined Cynthia Nixon in a five day hunger strike outside of Washington DC in support of an immediate ceasefire and opposition to President Biden’s involvement in support of Israel in the war in Gaza.[47][48][49] In 2024, he held an iftar for a ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan.
In 2025, Mamdani was the only mayoral candidate to make an appearance at a rally in Union Square in Manhattan to protest the Trump Administration and Mayor Eric Adams for their immigration policy and federal policy towards transgender Americans.[51]
Mamdani has proposed that the New York City minimum wage be raised to $30/hr by 2030.
Mamdani supports an income tax increase on the top one percent of New York income earners to raise $20 billion to fund tuition-free CUNY and SUNY schools, statewide universal childcare, a subway fare freeze, free MTA buses, housing protections, and other social policies.[53][54][55]
Bread lines are a good thing!
Some people, they to watch somebody else get burned before they believe you.
Some people, they need to stick their hand into an open fire once. Once.
And then you get to the aspiring politician with a name from a different culture, who feel the need to stick their other hand into the same fire to see if it hurts just as much as the first time. Or they to see if they stick your hand into the fire, will they feel pain?
It's complicated.
the abacus is my favorite part ...
And run like government. Twenty managers and committee members and only ten employees.
Right outside the govt apartments, withing the govt compound.
Lennon gave him the idea.
Read? Are you kidding me?
“Most states don’t have taxes on food!!!”
If it was just the food you buy at the supermarket, it would be simple. But there are always taxes to cover related applications. Out of the 45 states that impose some sales tax, 13 impose statewide sales tax on groceries.
And don’t forget the cost of the food is also added to by the price of transportation and taxes there someone has to cover the cost and that is the consumer. So by the time the comsumer gets the product, that 10 cents for the eggs the rancher sold it for to the wholesaler turns into the price of the egg plus costs. It all relates.
In the government, there is such a thing as DeCA. The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is a Department of Defense agency that operates a worldwide chain of commissaries, which are grocery stores for military personnel, retirees, and their families, offering discounted prices and contributing to family readiness and quality of life. However, they have a secondary need that covers the cost for their real intent...field rations. So Uncle Sugar covers the cost of transporting, packing, and storing what the need for field operations is called for. This changes the product while cutting costs because they can buy in bulk and protect themselves with Sales Tax Exemption they don’t pay themsleves. And if the product is shipped by military means, they bypass the interstate and local taxes. And this is why commissaries and exchanges can do better on many prices. But they still HR their employees.
It’s a lot more complex than people are told than just the cost of the egg. To get from the chicken to the frying pan is not a simple journey. And it costs money that has to be covered. And to add insult to injury, didn’t you pay taxes on the frying pan you used to cook the eggs? Never stops, does it?
wy69
NYC now has RCV for mayorals for a reason...
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