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the ratchet is angry (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I would love what you're saying to be true, but I don't think it is:

Two of the three key planks in his platform — making buses free to ride and providing universal free child care — would require action from the governor and state legislature, including raising taxes by billions of dollars. (The third, freezing the rent on rent-stabilized apartments, can be accomplished at the city level.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The article doesn't say that. This is what it says:

...parts of southeast Brooklyn and Queens where Cuomo won comfortably. [My emphasis.]

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.

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