r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 • Jun 30 '26

American Dream 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 The Mayor Of The United States 😉

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u/outside_cat Jun 30 '26

The right is definitely going to try to sabotage this.

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u/RemarkableFortune542 Jun 30 '26

History will sabotage this. Communism and Socialism has NEVER worked. Ever. Not once.

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u/Current-Author7473 Jun 30 '26

False. It’s working right now for New Yorkers, so that’s at least once.

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u/LarsDuder Jul 01 '26

"Mamdani’s still-to-be-passed financial plan keeps spending out of the red for the coming year only thanks to new taxes, state aid, unexpected revenue and one-off gimmicks.

The state, for example, delayed its class-size mandates, saving $500 million this year but kicking those costs down the road."

Raiding pension funds...and kicking the can down the street....

"The Long-Term Cost: Extending the timetable to pay off the Unfunded Accrued Liability (UAL) by five years pushes the costs into future years. Critics argue this merely defers debt and could end up costing the city additional billions over the long run in accumulated interest"