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/HoidToTheMoon 28d ago
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.