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Tabitha Zeigler's avatar

Excellent article! Thank you for your work.

Flowgone's avatar

Austerity has been foisted on the working citizens time and again as a solution to the misadventures of banks and and elites.

Sarah Meredith's avatar

So grateful Mamdani had the courage and ambition to run, win and remake the mayoral role in NYC! This is a hard task but he welcomes help and is getting it. ❤️

HaS's avatar

💙💙💪

Thomas Cleary's avatar

I’m very glad I’m on Qashim’s Team. I learn more on independent media than in could possibly learn in mainstream media or in universities.

Alexa McFarlane's avatar

Absolutely. It's always been bullshit to say the millionaires and billionaires will flee if they get taxed. They are being taxed such a minor amount in comparison to their total wealth, they won't even notice. 4% is nothing to them. They can still buy a yacht.

JAK-LAUGHING's avatar

Why are we only NOW doing the right thing...

Jessie G's avatar

Transparency in government, how refreshing.

Garrett Mengel's avatar

Things that make you say "Hmmm".

Seems like that approach could work at the federal level as well, don't you think?

Denice Shigematsu's avatar

I hope that once we clear the trash out of our current government, and put them all in prison, we elect a president who can implement this model. ❤️

Jan's avatar

I support Mamdani all the way. Other dems can learn a lot about supporting the working class and reducing the wealth gap. Corporate donors in politics need to be prohibited.

Martha Jones Eberle's avatar

Damn!, truth is refreshing. I look forward to see how well this works, in the greatest city in the world. There have always been, and are, millionaires & billionaires who know America has given them the chances to succeed, and want to make her succeed.

Kent Cooper's avatar

Mamdani understands what this businessman does---taxing the rich helps EVERYBODY do better, and makes the rich nicer people. America was in its golden years when the top tax rate wa 92%. I'm attaching two links for episodes 1 and 2 of eight total.

1. https://youtu.be/5bXOl63RSMk?si=X6bGT4L2l_crtwKE

Episode 2: How the 1950s top marginal federal income tax rate inspired successful business owners to increase wages and benefits, employ more people, and train them, propelling median household income upward along with productivity, and growing and improving the lifestyle of a middle class, until the tax code changed radically.

2. https://youtu.be/8zDK8BBZBUE?si=xjky1xaAGV0Y9uDM

The creator of these videos is Managing Director of the C. H. Douglas and Gray Wealth Management, a decorated U.S. Air Force officer, a Princeton University graduate with a Wharton School of Business MBA, and, yes, a lifelong Republican with ideas of how to make America Fair Again. Don't dismiss him because of his political attachment. These videos were produced in 2021.

Please share with your friends.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

A budget is a moral document. It tells you exactly who gets protected and who gets told to “tighten their belt” while billionaires loosen theirs.

Austerity is just a very serious-looking religion where the poor make the sacrifices and the rich keep the miracles.

Nice to see a mayor try something truly radical: telling the truth and sending the bill to the people who actually have the money.

Blessed are the cities that stop worshiping scarcity while practicing hoarding.

Angela Clark's avatar

Qasim, thank you for sharing and shining a light on Mayor Mamdami’s fiscal plans. He is doing amazing work. Hochul should get behind his proposals. She only needs to look at Massachusetts to see the benefits.

Jools's avatar

Does Anyone think these wealthy parasites are going to relocate to MS, or “Arkeesaw” or WVA??