{"id":554724,"date":"2026-01-30T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554724\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:34:24","slug":"lying-mamdanis-phony-budget-crisis-is-cover-to-raise-taxes-on-new-yorkers-to-pay-for-his-free-stuff-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554724\/","title":{"rendered":"Lying Mamdani’s phony budget crisis is cover to raise taxes on New Yorkers to pay for his \u2018free stuff\u2019 agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled the City Hall press corps Wednesday to announce his shock at finding a $12 billion budget hole<\/a> . . . that everyone worth his salt has been flagging for a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heck, a hole that Mayor Eric Adams warned about in 2023 at the height of, and as a result of, the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s pretend budget crisis (more threatening than the Great Recession, he claims) is designed purely to gin up support for soak-the-rich tax hikes to fund his promised billions in new spending.<\/p>\n

(Or, if the city\u2019s lucky enough, to give him an excuse for failing to deliver on his promises.)<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to avoid an outright break with Gov. Kathy Hochul, but wants his allies in the Legislature to bully her into OK\u2019ing state corporate and personal-income tax hikes even though she knows that could threaten her re-election hopes.<\/p>\n

We noted in October<\/a> that Mamdani had no real plan to pay for his signature promises \u2014 much less how much they\u2019d truly cost.<\/p>\n

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Then again, he did campaign on tax hikes on wealthy New Yorkers to fund his $10 billion freebie-filled agenda<\/a>, though knowing full well that city government lacks the power to raise anything except property taxes.<\/p>\n

So now comes the fakery of \u201cdiscovering\u201d that Adams (and, somehow, Andrew Cuomo, who left office five years ago) laid a budget-deficit trap for him.<\/p>\n

Reminder: Mamdani and other progressives pilloried Adams for suggesting (years ago!) that \u201cwe are going to have to cut every service in this city\u201d to cover the costs of the migrant influx.<\/p>\n

More flim-flammery: Calling it unfair that the city only \u201cgets back\u201d 80% of the taxes New Yorkers pay to the state.<\/p>\n

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D\u2019oh! The essence of progressive taxation \u2014 and of socialism: The wealthy pay more (and NYC is wealthier than most of the state) to support the less well-off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comically, his bid to find some cash in the existing budget echoes Team Trump\u2019s DOGE drive: He\u2019s naming departmental \u201cchief savings officers<\/a>\u201d to ID waste and fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More hilarious, the new mayor is silent about the costs the state class-size law<\/a> is inflicting on the city; schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels just announced he needs $602 million this year to hire 6,000 new teachers to meet that state mandate.<\/p>\n

But Mamdani doesn\u2019t want to call out the United Federation of Teachers for getting that law passed, nor Hochul for signing it over Adams\u2019 objections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Mamdani\u2019s away from the cameras, perhaps Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan will share the wisdom of his old boss, late Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: Budgeting means that sometimes you just have to \u201ctake something out of the basket and put it back on the shelf, because you can\u2019t afford it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

We look forward to the day, once his pathetic excuses stop working, that the mayor has to level with his voters about living in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled the City Hall press corps Wednesday to announce his shock at finding a $12…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":554725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,13237,4691,5289,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,618,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-554724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-city-budget","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-eric-adams","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-taxes","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115985964617421228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}