Are these "snow shovelers" getting paid ?
Thats the only way I can see this happening. If they are, would this make them City employees?
Would the City be liable for any lifetime injuries from back injury from lifting the snow?

Imagine the callouses, how are they gonna pound their puds?

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Dipshiot threatens axing 5000 cops and raising property taxes 10%

Do it!

Drive that city the rest of the way into the shitter.

Enjoy what you voted for Democrats!

I’ll bet the security detail around Gracie Mansion will still be well staffed though!

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The Journal also reported that budget analysts faulted former Mayor Eric Adams for underestimating future expenses.

well, did they forget to count the million illegals they now must pay to educate?


New York City (NYC) is projected to spend approximately $42,168 per student in the current school year, which is the baseline cost for educating any pupil in the public school system, including undocumented immigrant students.

The 2025-26 Enacted Budget Financial Plan indicates the State plans to spend $4.3 billion between State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022-23 through SFY 2026-27 for emergency spending related to people seeking asylum in the United States.

Zohran Mamdani's Budgetary Buffoonery

Truly a courageous and brilliant new strategy from the left: raising taxes. How novel.

When Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor, he sold New Yorkers a vision of relief. Free childcare. Free buses. A rent freeze. A city that would finally tilt toward the struggling rather than the secure. What he did not campaign on was a nearly 10% property tax hike affecting more than three million residences and over 100,000 commercial properties. Yet, days after his election, here we are.

The proposal, floated as leverage in a standoff with Kathy Hochul, is being marketed as a reluctant last resort. But for a mayor elected on affordability, threatening one of the broadest tax increases available to City Hall is not just ironic—it’s revealing. When the numbers got tight and Albany didn’t comply, Mamdani’s idiotic grand promises collided with fiscal gravity. And instead of rethinking the scale of the agenda, the answer was to reach for the biggest local tax lever available.

Truly a courageous and brilliant new strategy from the left: raising taxes. How novel.

This is not some clever new framework. Property taxes are the most predictable, blunt instrument in municipal finance. They are also uniquely capable of rippling through the housing market in exactly the way Mamdani claims to oppose. Owners of small apartment buildings do not absorb cost increases out of civic virtue. Co-op boards don’t shrug off higher levies as symbolic gestures. Costs get passed along where they can be. Where they can’t, maintenance gets deferred. Either way, renters feel it.

It is a strange approach for a mayor who built his brand on a rent freeze. Even in regulated markets, rising operating costs create pressure. Insurance goes up. Taxes go up. Financing tightens. The idea that rents will somehow remain untouched while property taxes jump by nearly double digits requires a level of magical thinking that would make even this idiot’s campaign rally blush.

And the politics are riskier than they appear. Many of the people who voted for Mamdani also own property—brownstones in Brooklyn, co-ops in Queens, small multifamily homes in the Bronx. They may support progressive goals in theory. They are probably, however, less enthusiastic about writing materially larger checks to City Hall in practice. The coalition that cheers bold rhetoric can fracture quickly when the bill arrives.

Meanwhile, the wealthiest residents—the ones progressives often argue should shoulder more of the burden—are the most mobile. Florida and Texas have spent years positioning themselves as lower-tax alternatives. Some migration has already occurred. More importantly, the perception has taken hold that New York’s reflex, when faced with a budget gap, is to tax what it can reach.

That perception matters. Capital is cautious. Businesses consider long-term operating costs. High earners with flexibility do the math. A city that signals fiscal instability or punitive tax swings makes those calculations easier. Wealth doesn’t leave overnight in caravans, but it leaves incrementally. A family here. A fund there. A company’s next expansion somewhere else.

None of this solves the structural problem Mamdani says he is fighting. A nearly 10 percent property tax hike does not reform the inequities in the property tax system. It does not fundamentally restructure spending. It does not magically close a multibillion-dollar gap without consequences. It simply shifts pressure onto homeowners, landlords, and—inevitably—renters.

It’s true that New York City has survived worse than one mayor’s budget gambit. It survived the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. It survived waves of out-migration before. It will survive this. The question is not whether the city endures, but what it looks like after years of governing by threat and tax hike. If the answer to every shortfall is to squeeze the remaining tax base harder, how many people with the means to leave will decide they’ve had enough?

And if that exodus accelerates, who exactly will be left to fund the next round of bullshit socialist promises?

https://quoththeraven.substack...budgetary-buffoonery

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Owners of small apartment buildings do not absorb cost increases out of civic virtue.

I believe Mamdani is also demanding rent control.

They have been going downhill at least since De Blasio. They voted for more stupidity with Adams and now have their crowning achievement in Mandummy. It is hard to feel sorry for people that continue to double-down on stupid.


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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This!
Chicago is no better, we continually go from bad to worse and re-elect them.
Are ANY large cities any different?

Guess the $19/hr for shoveling snow isn't attracting anyone.


https://x.com/MarkLevineNYC/st.../2026027177414680892

Well these liberal shitholes pay people 19 bucks minimum wage an hour to stand at a register and punch buttons or flip burgers now so why kill yourself shoveling heavy wet heart attack snow for that?

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Guess the $19/hr for shoveling snow isn't attracting anyone.

The free shit army wants their stuff for free. Why should they work for $19/hr when they can collect all kinds of gov't benefits for free. Work? What's that?

This clown just keeps doubling down on the stupid

New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to spend $70 million on a 'feasibility study' into launching government-owned grocery stores, reports say.

I can save them $69 million...
For $1 million I'll tell them how it's going to work out.

It’ll work out swimmingly if the goal is $60 a gallon milk

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Originally posted by jljones:
It’ll work out swimmingly if the goal is $60 a gallon milk

On the rare occasion they will actually be able to have it in the store ...

Fraud and internal theft will doom the grocery stores .

As long as his study is not funded or subsidized with Federal tax dollars, go for it !

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Guess the $19/hr for shoveling snow isn't attracting anyone.

Although it’s probably not something that even committed socialists or Communists believe today, at one time this was part of their dogma:

“The early Communist concept of the ‘New Soviet Man’ referred to an idealized human type that socialist society was expected to create as it replaced capitalism. It was not merely a propaganda slogan, but a core anthropological and moral project of early Soviet communism: the belief that changing social and economic structures would fundamentally reshape human character itself.”

That was of course a ridiculous idea, but evidently it hasn’t died out entirely. Why, indeed, would anyone who was accustomed to being supported by the productive members of society and not having to work at anything, want to earn a few extra bucks by engaging in difficult labor?

Most people who would be willing to work at such a task for the greater good will already be doing other productive things. It would be interesting to know the thinking of whoever dreamed up the idea.

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Originally posted by selogic:
Fraud and internal theft will doom the grocery stores .

Once the snow melts, especially in the summer, we'll see mobs of thugs raping stores similar to San Francisco, and likely on a larger scale. Mamdani will not prosecute blacks, just like D.A. Chesa Boudin did in SF. Criminals likely know right now NYC is ripe pickings in 2026.