Hey, why not? After all, evidently it works in India.
I hope he succeeds in bringing down that city. I have never forgiven myself for shedding tears for New York after 911.
Those “free” transportation systems - buses, subways, etc. will be immediately taken over by homeless who will use them as “shelters.”
18 died on the streets recently due to the freezing cold weather - Mamdani says they have the right to be on the street.
“Of the 18 deaths, 15 were confirmed to be due to hypothermia.”
NOTHING is FREE
“Free” busses will become mobile homeless camps almost immediately. And very expensive ones that that. It’s so predictable. Mamdani won’t even remove them from the subways anymore.
Hey, why not? After all, evidently it works in India.
In the end, all of it, socialism, communism, Marxism, is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable.
It is all the ideological equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
It all starts off at a given level, and as soon as the socialist gears are engaged, the downward descent begins.
Over time, the existing wealth consumed by socialism is never replaced, in the same way a healthy human body is inexorably consumed by a wasting disease over time.
And eventually both the human body and a wealthy society waste away as they are consumed and die in exactly the same fashion. Venezuela was an object lesson in real time, in our lives, exactly how that works.
The only reason Socialism “works” is that wealth has to exist for it as a host to consume, and there has to be a fresh supply of “Useful Idiots” and “Marks” who will lend support to socialist endeavors.
And there are never shortages of “Useful Idiots” and “Marks” who are willing to go all in on the socialist agenda...because they all think they will be the ones to benefit in some way.
They don’t understand that they too will be victimized in the same way the owners of wealth will be.
So... taxpayers in other parts of New York State and in other states will be forced to pay for the shortfalls.
It takes money to maintain buses and trains…that is what part of the fare is for.
I laughed at the part where they want the people who have to pay for it all shouldn’t be allowed to avail themselves of the “free bus service” because they make too much. This is insane.🤡🤡
With millions of riders a day the advertising should be enough to make them profitable. Plenty of places do free public transit, ads pay for them. It’s not actually tough. The model kept TV and radio going for decades.
DON’T BUSES MAKE ALOT MORE “STOPS”?
HOW DO YOU MAKE THAT QUICKER???
What happens when the people that need the buses can’t use the buses because they’re full with dangerous people ?
“NORTON! Yer not gonna believe what they wanna do with my bus!”
Just charge the wealthy white people who ride the bus.
All of these socialist dreams, could only have some positive results in a high-trust society.
We are not a high-trust society.
Madmami says that if you are murdered “Inside your own home, it’s none of the city’s business.” ROTFL! It’s left up to you do take care of all the business required to clear up the mess and dump the body.
grossly biased article: only pro-free-bus groups interviewed, not a single critic ...
not a single person to say that a system on the verge of collapse will be sent over the edge ... no one to point out that bus fights will increase exponentially with thousands of drug-addicts permanently camping out on “free” buses, disgusting bus hygiene, massive numbers of bus drivers quitting because of all of that, greatly reduced ridership because everyone who can flee will flee, leaving only the poorest of the poor remaining to ride, that is, the very people that were SUPPOSED to be helped by “free” buses ...
The quick slide into Cuba and Venezuela has begun for the Big Apple.
Wonder how long before residents of NYC are eating rats and dogs to survive?
Here in the PNW, Jefferson county, there is no fee for riding the bus. I can take the bus from where I live to a town forty miles away for no fee. But then, property taxes support the bus system here.
Bkmk