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That's fine because Mamdani isn't asking for state funding, AFAIK. His $60M grocery store plan reallocates funding which would have gone to business subsidies for grocery stores, his other ideas cost an estimated $3M and $5M out of a $116Bn fiscal budget. Since Property Taxes are not handled by the state he doesn't need permission to raise them on.
Making buses free might actually save them money from investigating unpaid tickets.
I would love what you're saying to be true, but I don't think it is:
I'm not sure how trustworthy that article is, since it also claims Cuomo comfortably won Brooklyn but the results for Brooklyn were Mamdani 48% to Cuomo 31%. Property taxes do not require state congress and the NYC budget is also separate from the state treasury. It does mention 3 dissenting state congressmen out of 150, the party breakdown being 83D 22R 45O.
The article doesn't say that. This is what it says:
You're not doing the bare minimum to arrive at an accurate picture of things. This makes this discussion a waste of time.
For anyone who's actually curious, this map shows the results for each election district.