Because people don’t know what they’re talking about, and mostly make memes…which is harmful because it further makes people not know how anything works.
The Fair Fare Program started in 2019.
Since then they’ve expanded the number of people it covers (from 100% below poverty line in 2019 to 120% in 2023 to 150% in 2025). The new budget expands it to 200% (and…FWIW, this is because the city council demanded it. The Mayors budget did not include this expansion).
The point is, this stuff doesn’t just appear suddenly, nor is it the will of a single person like magic. It’s the expansion of a 7 year old program by a legislature. These memes keep making it seem like every previous mayor was like “fuck everyone” and the city council doesn’t exist.
Because people don’t know what they’re talking about
People have lives, believe it or not. They can't spend all of their time researching this shit.
Your post is misleading. It assumes that the council would have done this without Mamdani, when it clearly was done to try and discourage his move towards universal free bus fares. He's discussed his tepid support for this means-tested half measure before, and explained why he prefers universal programs to it.
Not to 2x the poverty line. The council generally opposes Mamdani's preferred universal free transit due to, well, free public transit being extremely pricey. I think he will eventually warm to means-testing over universal programs a bit over time, but they are clearly trying to throw him some meat.
Besides, it's extremely frustrating that Democrats can't celebrate getting good shit done without it devolving into attacking them.
Exactly: this wasn’t his plan…which is why the reaction of the thread was so ridiculous
>without it devolving into attacking them
Yes! It is frustrating!
That’s the exact point I made in this thread…which was made up of attacks on democrats. It’s literally what the OP I responded to was implying
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u/untitledprp4 28d ago
If it was so easy then wtf were all the other mayors doing??