Posted on 07/08/2026 8:11:47 AM PDT by DFG
Pay yourself first — over and over again!
Shameless city lawmakers are pushing to give themselves eye-watering 18.2% raises — in a scheme that will also give them automatic pay hikes of at least 2% every year in the future.
City Council Member Nantasha Williams (D-27) introduced a bill that would inflate her and her colleagues’ salaries from $148,500 to $175,500 backdated to January, while also ballooning pay for the mayor, the City Council speaker and other elected positions.
The bill comes days after the lawmakers signed off on a record-breaking $126 billion city budget and includes salaries even higher than a 16% raise the council tried to sneak by in a similar bank-account boosting measure at the end of their session last year.
And the bill also ensures taxpayers will be on the hook to pay elected officials more every year — with no requirement for public debate or a City Council vote.
Under the proposed law, if the council doesn’t vote to hike salaries for four years, raises kick in anyway, at either 2% per year or 8.25% overall — whichever is less.
The proposal follows recommendations from a report conducted by a three-person “Quadrennial Commission” appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The 127-page report suggested automatic pay hikes to prevent what it claimed would be the “further erosion of salaries” — noting that elected officials haven’t received increases since 2016.
The mayor’s salary would also get boosted from $258,750 to $305,800 and Council Speaker Julie Menin’s would rise from $164,500 to $194,000 — though both leaders have said they wouldn’t take the pay bumps.
Mamdani hasn’t taken a stance on whether he was in favor of the hikes and said he’d leave it for the City Council to debate.
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It’s a commie city now - where ‘public servants’ become violent bullies. Step one? The shakedown...
yep, empty the coffers and establish the new royalty... sorry proletariat leaders of the workers.
All animals are equal, just some are more equal than others.
Hahahahaha
LOL I was literally thinking and writing that up before I saw your post
Grifting for me but not for thee...
Their Dear Leader Mamdani is such a vile evil person beneath his false mask, it immediately becomes visible anytime he allows his forced toothy smile to drop, even for a second.
Ah, the warm embrace of collectivism.
Elect socialists and the transformation is rapid and seamless. Is Dear Leader’s birthday a public holiday yet?
New York City spending amounts to at least $13,500 per person, bu in as much as many persons in NYC pay no taxes, that means the $13,500 per person is much greater on a per taxpayer basis.
The $13,500 per capita is derived from the population of 8.5 million. But there are only 3.9 million registered taxpayers in NYC. That means on a per taxpayer basis the figure is closer to $29,000 per each taxpayer.
That’s a hell of a nice raise given:
The Average Private Sector: Most base salary raises for management and exempt employees are around 3.2% to 3.5%.Top Performers: Managers who exceed their goals may see merit increases of 5% to 6%.
Here comes Phase One of the veil being lifted for all those sucker voters - Socialists and Commies are hypocrites.
Ahhh, the essence of the first two generations under commie rule. Well, along with killing useful idiots, purges and other assorted horrors.
BINGO!
Here comes actual socialism - those in POWER live well. Everyone else, not so much...all at their expense while they get poorer.
They would NEVER put this issue on THE BALLOT because then we’d see HOW MUCH THEY CHEAT.
NYC has RCV for a reason.
Gotham, want your city back...
Get rid of RC and those bloody RCV-enabled electronic voting machines. If you’re able-bodied, refuse to use mail-in.
Record low turnouts, my derriere.
at either 2% per year or 8.25% overall — whichever is less.
Of course a Democrat Congress will ensure that every Federal spending bill will contain subsidies for these urban socialist lunatics and their schemes. Decent productive hard working Americans will be forced to pay taxes for these idiots.
They count the votes. They answer to no one now. They can go right ahead and do this and they will.
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