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Mamdani's Affordability Agenda Threatened by Math

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to roll out his first preliminary budget on Tuesday as officials and watchdogs warn that rising costs, especially in housing and education, are pushing the nation's largest city toward multibillion-dollar budget gaps that threaten to narrow the expansion of services he promised voters.

NYC is legally required to balance its budget, and its fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30, with the final spending plan typically adopted by late June after months of negotiations with the City Council.

The Wall Street Journal reported that city officials are confronting a potential $12 billion gap over the next two years as spending grows faster than tax revenue, with particular strain from rental vouchers, public assistance, the school system, overtime, and required payments tied to the state-operated transit system.

Mamdani has said his administration has made progress in narrowing the shortfall, citing expected revenue from Wall Street bonuses and internal savings, though the Journal reported that he provided few supporting details.

The same report said his agenda includes free bus service, expanded child care, and new housing initiatives that would require additional funding.

Outside fiscal monitors have issued sharper projections.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine said in January that the city faces a $2.2 billion shortfall in fiscal 2026 and a projected $10.4 billion gap in fiscal 2027, calling it an unusually large imbalance this late in the budget cycle.

At the state level, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office has also warned that gaps could reach about $10 billion in fiscal 2027 and grow further in later years, citing risks tied to slowing growth and rising costs.

Costs tied to housing vouchers have drawn sustained scrutiny.

DiNapoli's office said in a January audit release that weak oversight and administrative lapses in the city's CityFHEPS voucher program are contributing to rising costs.

Education is another pressure point.

State documents show New York City must phase in smaller class sizes under state requirements, a shift that can require additional staffing and space.

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

Adams has pushed back on the idea that his administration created the current squeeze, with a spokesman telling The Wall Street Journal it is wrong to blame the former mayor for "longstanding" budget gaps and fiscal pressures he inherited when he took office.

When Eric Adams took office in early 2022, New York City already had projected out-year budget gaps.

The city's November 2021 financial plan update listed City Funds "gaps to be closed" of $2.882 billion for fiscal 2023, $2.731 billion for fiscal 2024, and $2.140 billion for fiscal 2025, after accounting for a fiscal 2022 prepayment.

The Citizens Budget Commission summarized the same plan as reducing the out-year gaps to about $2.9 billion, $2.7 billion, and $2.1 billion.

^^^^^^

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NYC is legally required to balance its budget

I suspect lots of fudging.

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Mamdani's Affordability Agenda Threatened by Math

There’s multiple examples of Math being racist. I suspect that this will be added to that list in some way.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
There’s multiple examples of Math being racist.

If you insist on your blinkered, society-wrecking view that it is merely racist, someone will be coming for you.

A disgusting abomination like this (x+x = 2x) is not only racist, but also homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, speciesist, patriarchal, colonialist, and adultist, and was invented by fat- and body-shaming CO2-spewing running dog exploiters of the capitalist Fascist Zionist military/industrial complex conspiracy to oppress the workers and peasants of color of the world.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:


A disgusting abomination like this (x+x = 2x) is not only racist,

It's because 2 is even, isn't it?

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Originally posted by DrDan:
It's because 2 is even, isn't it?

Oh, …: You, too‽
Will the oppression never end???

(In case anyone wonders, I’ve been getting inspiration from reading The Great Terror by Robert Conquest. Stalin and the Soviet NKVD of the 1930s could have gotten some lessons about what sort of people were society’s “wreckers,” saboteurs, spies, and general miscreants from some of today’s movements.)

FaIlure to accept mathematical reality is a hallmark of leftists

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
There’s multiple examples of Math being racist.

If you insist on your blinkered, society-wrecking view that it is merely racist, someone will be coming for you.

A disgusting abomination like this (x+x = 2x) is not only racist, but also homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, speciesist, patriarchal, colonialist, and adultist, and was invented by fat- and body-shaming CO2-spewing running dog exploiters of the capitalist Fascist Zionist military/industrial complex conspiracy to oppress the workers and peasants of color of the world.

Reading this, Santana's "Evil Ways" just started playing in my head.

I guess I got to change my evil ways, baby...

Now it's playing in my head.

But thanks, it's actually not bad as earworms go.

Islamic Call to Prayer? Hey NYC...Push Back!



https://x.com/RealDonKeith/status/2008936207569613094


And St. Patrick's Day will be here before you know it!

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New Yorkers wake to the Islamic call to prayer

^^^ Wow!

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Under policies approved by Eric Adams, mosques have been permitted to broadcast the call to prayer publicly on Fridays and during Ramadan without a special noise variance. More recently, activists tied to figures like Zohran Mamdani have pushed for expanded public religious expression framed as equity and inclusion.

Let me clear about something up front, as a Christian pastor. The United States protects religious liberty. That includes Muslims. The First Amendment is not selective. And it should not be. But freedom of religion is not the same thing as forced participation in someone else’s religious proclamation.

The Adhan is not ambient background music. It is a declaration. The phrase “Allahu Akbar” means “God is greatest.” It is a theological claim. It is a call to submission. Practicing Muslims understand this. That is not controversial. That is simply fact.

Now imagine living in lower Manhattan. Imagine hearing that broadcast before sunrise, rolling through concrete and glass, over a skyline where nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered in an attack carried out in the name of that same phrase. Context matters. Memory matters. And if that memory is ingrained in my mind, being in 6th grade and states away at the time, I can't imagine where it sits for those in the city.

We are told that discomfort equals intolerance. That objection equals hate. That if you even question the wisdom of amplifying the Adhan over public neighborhoods, you are somehow anti-Muslim. That doesn't just strike me as ridiculous; it's lazy thinking.
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The issue is not private worship. The issue is state-enabled amplification. When City Hall makes policy decisions that allow one religious proclamation to be projected into unwilling homes at dawn, it is no longer just about free exercise. It becomes about cultural dominance. And I didn't mistype, dominance is the word.

No one would accept a church blasting the Apostles’ Creed over city blocks at 5 AM. No one would tolerate a synagogue projecting the Shema across neighborhoods daily through municipal permission. We know this. Noise ordinances exist for a reason. So why the carve-outs?

Supporters say it is about inclusion. But inclusion that overrides everyone else’s peace is not inclusion. It is favoritism. It signals that certain expressions are protected beyond criticism, while others are carefully monitored, litigated, or mocked. This is where the frustration deepens.

New York is not just another city. It is the financial capital of the world. It is the city that buried firefighters and police officers after September 11. It is where families still read names at the memorial every year. That memory should create humility in leadership decisions, not bravado. We were told years ago that multiculturalism meant peaceful coexistence. Live and let live. Practice your faith quietly and freely. But coexistence assumes boundaries. It assumes mutual respect. However, blasting theological declarations over entire neighborhoods before sunrise feels less like coexistence and more like encroachment.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Mamdani's Affordability Agenda Threatened by Math

There’s multiple examples of Math being racist. I suspect that this will be added to that list in some way.

Wait a second…are you saying socialism doesn’t work??

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However, blasting theological declarations over entire neighborhoods before sunrise feels less like coexistence and more like encroachment.

Or indoctrination.

Domination into submission.

I don't know if this broad is actually a member of Mamdani's administration, but his election has certainly emboldened this sort of thing.

https://x.com/NerdeenKiswani/s...091365182845006?s=20



"Nerdeen Kiswani" sounds like a mook who's failed Darth Vader for the last time.

https://x.com/RepFine/status/2023161539897720931?s=20



https://townhall.com/columnist...ng-our-dogs-n2671436

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Leave it to the Democrats and their regime media flunkies to take the 1 percent side of a 99 percent to 1 percent issue, but a whole bunch of them, including Gavin Hairstyle and Jake Tapper, got into a high dudgeon the other day because normal Americans rejected the demand of radical Muslims to give up our puppies. Given the choice between Fido and Muslims who hate canines, the American people came down four-square in favor of Lassie. This is why you don't ask a question if you don't want to hear the answer.
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There was so much tiresome posing in defense of Moorish prerogatives when this all came down; of course, it was a radical Muslim who started it. Some New York City, green/red, non-player character improbably named Nerdeen Kiswani tweeted, "Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we've said all along, they are unclean." When Americans responded with the appropriate contempt, she retweeted several like-minded tools urging the banning of dogs and, of course, blamed "the Zionists."

The mayor is an idiot in all aspects. A cop shot an assailant with a butcher knife when he failed the usual commands. The assailant began closing the distance and any idiot knows that if the perp gets too close the cop wont have time to shoot. the cop wounded the guy. It was a mental health call and even the perps mother said the cop had no choice.
His honor the mayor said a social worker should have been called instead of the cops. Most social workers are bright enough to know this incident is above their pay grade. The mayor wants all charges dropped.

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A cop shot an assailant with a butcher knife

No, you shoot somebody with a gun. A knife is used for stabbing, not shooting.

It Begins: Mamdani Plans First NYC Property Tax Hike In Decades To Plug $5 Billion Hole

New York City property owners are set to 'enjoy' the first property tax hike in more than two decades as part of a proposed solution by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to fill a roughly $5 billion budget gap, Bloomberg reports.

"He’s put a pretty extreme option on the table, which is a combination of raising property taxes and taking money from reserves and relying on some pretty aggressive revenue projections to boot," said NYC Comptroller Mark Levine.

The pitch, set to be unveiled Tuesday afternoon during Mamdani's preliminary budget proposal, comes one day after Governor Kathy Hochul vowed to kick in another $1.5 billion in additional aid to the city for the current fiscal year and next. Hochul has also committed $510 million for future years to help plug holes in the budget.

Update: Mamdani has laid out two paths; raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and most profitable corporations, or 'balance the budget on the backs of working people using only the tools at the City's disposal.'

Mamdani says that the state should step up even more. Last week, he called on state lawmakers Wednesday to approve a 2 percent personal income tax increase on the city’s wealthiest residents as well as a hike in the corporate tax rate in a bid to close a multibillion-dollar budget gap. Of note, Hochul and the legislature must approve any tax changes.

While Mamdani is handcuffed in many ways when it comes to raising revenue, raising property taxes is something he can do as part of the annual budget process. Homeowners, meanwhile, just had their assessed values jump 5.6%, which will bring the city an additional $325.8 billion - which is separate of Mamdani's plan.

Mamdani’s own rhetoric about the size and scope of the city’s budget situation has shifted. Earlier this month, just two weeks after describing the city’s $12.6 billion budget deficit as the city’s largest since the Great Recession, Mamdani revealed the hole had actually shrunk by $5 billion, because of higher tax revenue, propelled by personal income tax growth and Wall Street bonuses.

Even threatening to raise property taxes could prove a political lightning rod for Mamdani, after campaigning to reform that system, which has been criticized for overburdening lower- and middle-income residents. The last time the city increased property tax rates was under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the early 2000s. -Bloomberg

Meanwhile last month Mamdani said NYC is facing a $12.6 billion deficit over the next two years, which he blamed on his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams, whose administration he says underbudgeted for various expenses such as cash assistance, rental assistance for homeless residents, special education and overtime costs. In FY 2025, NYC took in over $33 billion in property tax revenue.

Mamdani during his campaign promoted progressive reforms to fund proposals such as free public transit, rent stabilization and housing programs, universal child care, and a $30 minimum wage, leading to his upset win over more moderate Democrats.

He called for a 2 percent surcharge on high earners on the campaign trail.

Estimates suggested it could create approximately $4 billion annually to support increased public services and affordability programs, as well as offset costs for broad social investments while not saddling middle- and low-income residents.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...-plug-5-billion-hole