That’s your misunderstanding of how cities work, bud. Mayor is a far more powerful position than people believe and municipal elections are crazy important for bringing about real change and bringing it to the people directly.
The mayor of NYC has a lot more power than the governor of, for instance, Wyoming. More power than the prime ministers of a lot of sovereign nations, even.
A lot of wealthy people will just leave NYC. Or they will stay with increased taxes and everything will be fine. Just like the fairytales we read growing up.
He’s just s mayor. Obviously, people don’t know how government works. He needs to be dictator before he can fundamentally change NYC.
That’s your misunderstanding of how cities work, bud. Mayor is a far more powerful position than people believe and municipal elections are crazy important for bringing about real change and bringing it to the people directly.
Mandani does not have the unilateral power to raise taxes.
The mayor of NYC has a lot more power than the governor of, for instance, Wyoming. More power than the prime ministers of a lot of sovereign nations, even.
A lot of wealthy people will just leave NYC. Or they will stay with increased taxes and everything will be fine. Just like the fairytales we read growing up.
Good. Make them run. Nip at their heels. Give them no rest or any place to hide until we corner them and take back from them everything.
The rich are worthless. They bring nothing at all to the table. Their net value to humanity is negative. They only hoard.
Massachusetts did it and it went well
https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/report-massachusetts-home-to-more-millionaires-despite-new-millionaires-tax
https://www.commondreams.org/news/state-wealth-tax
Wait, you mean the people that hoard all of our resources and don’t pay taxes will leave? Oh noes! 😱 What will we do without them…