Mamdani's racial equity plan a hidden 'moving the goalposts' ploy to justify massive gov expansion: expert

Fox News ^ | 4/27/26 | Andrew Mark Miller

[Libloather]

New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is "moving the goalposts" on poverty in the nation’s largest city with his newly unveiled racial equity plan to justify a massive expansion of government intervention, a top city policy analyst warns.

Mamdani released his "Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan" earlier this month, which quickly received pushback from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as well as from the Manhattan Institute’s Santiago Vidal Calvo, who told Fox News Digital that when the report uses a "true cost of living" to claim 62% of New Yorkers can’t make ends meet in the city, it’s a ploy to declare a crisis that needs more government.

"What he’s essentially doing is moving the goalposts," Vidal Calvo explained. "He’s essentially saying that what the federal government qualifies as somebody below the poverty line — which is essentially like $34,000, $35,000 a year. Those might be like 2024 numbers, but it’s pretty close to that — we’re essentially moving the goalposts so anybody under $160,000 with children cannot afford to live in New York City."

"Those numbers, in reality, if you live in New York City, they don’t sound crazy, they don’t sound, you know, high. But in all of reality, for any single person across America, $160,000 is, you know, a breadwinner. It’s essentially enough money to raise a family and to have children and to have a good life. So when we move the goalposts into that direction, without actually recognizing what are the underlying issues of the disease, what are the actual problems that make New York City expensive, then we’re just attributing a problem and throwing a dart at the board and saying, 'This is it.'"

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: equity; expansion; ploy; racial

[Libloather]

Still picking winners and losers. But, Madmani is a commie so...

[PGalt]

ISLAMamdani - D evil

[mewzilla]

From a couple of days ago...

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

Mamdani doesn’t need a hidden ploy for a massive government expansion. He’s a freakin Communist. He didn’t hide that when he ran for office. The people voted for him. The conservative media needs to wake up to that fact. These rage bait articles from Fox miss the point. Mamdani isn’t scamming anyone. He’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do.

[neverevergiveup]

Those Americans who support people whose goal is to destroy my way of life are in reality my enemies. Their self-righteous ignorance can and is dismantling the Western world and handing our futures to those who hate us. I can no longer consider them as fellow Americans. What they actively support represents the road to destruction of much that I hold sacred. That's what people who hate you do.