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@robermem @BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor Enjoy living in your third world hell hole!

@robermem @BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor "Cool I don't care" is the most honest thing you've said all thread.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

He didn't tone it down because it was moderate. His own lawyers scrubbed the language across six revisions because they said the original goals could be "successfully challenged under Title VII and the equal protections clause." The sanitized version still says this in his own words: - "The City's current state of persistent racial inequities is rooted in our 400-year history." - "Budget Reallocation: Shifting existing resources to address equity priorities." - "Reversing Past Harms: Acknowledging and addressing historical injustices." - "There is no economic justice without racial equity." That's not a planning framework. That's one group owes another and government collects the debt. The DSA platform he ran on says it explicitly. "Ending white supremacy will require redistribution." "We cannot meaningfully combat capitalism without combating white supremacy." He told you who he was on day one. His lawyers confirmed it by trying to hide it. His own document proves it anyway. This isn't policy. It's ideology with a budget.

@PredictableArc @BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor The racial equity plan is a direct extension of the voter approved ‘22 charter amendments. Adams never delivered so Mamdani had to. His version draws from that OG plan while also integrating aspects of his affordability agenda into it, he also toned down the DEI language.

He said it himself on inauguration day. "I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist." This isn't a tax policy debate. The racial framing, the equity plan, the property tax targeting "richer and whiter neighborhoods." That's not accidental language from a mayor trying to balance a budget. That's the ideology in action. Ask yourself why a budget problem requires a 375 page racial equity plan. I'll let you answer that.

@PredictableArc @BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor It’s not race-based. “Richer and Whiter” was simply a description of what the neighborhoods mostly are: rich and white. They’ll be getting taxed based on the former rather than the latter.

That study measures one thing in isolation. Mamdani isn't proposing one thing. He's running a 375 page racial equity plan, a property tax explicitly targeting what he called "richer and whiter neighborhoods," a millionaire surcharge, a corporate tax hike, a rent freeze, and a 9.5% property tax backup if Albany says no. This isn't a tax policy debate anymore. It's a political program built around redistribution by race and class simultaneously. The NJ study was never designed to measure that.

@PredictableArc @BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor The $16 billion loss has nothing to do with Cali’s proposed wealth tax, again, it’s due to trends that go back years. Your fear mongering about some future mass-exodus just isn’t really based on reality. Here’s actual data that proves tax increases barely move the needle:

@libsoftiktok How does one prove they are a + Free money, y'all

WTF. Democrat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu launched a program that gives $250-500 vouchers to "LGBTQ+ Migrants" so they can get free yoga classes, salon visits, massages, gym memberships, and MORE. All funded with YOUR tax dollars.

@Polymarket Devastating

JUST IN: New analysis reveals Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.

But Mamdani is going to rapidly accelerate that rate. California ran this experiment. Lost $16 billion in AGI from their millionaire tax. NYC's proposed rate is higher than California's ever was. Applied to one city where you can escape it by moving 20 minutes across the river. We've seen this story before.

@PredictableArc @BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor The exodus is part of an ongoing trend that goes back to around 2010, Covid accelerated it. Mamdani has nothing to do with it.

@ImMeme0 If Zohran Mamdani and Brandon Johnson had a baby it would declare bankruptcy by age 3, blame the formula companies, and offer the nanny assisted suicide when the checks bounced.

Chicago Mayor Johnson, when asked what it would take for his administration to seek accountability for violent teen mobs taking over Chicago, brushed it off, saying it is something that is happening “all over the world.”

@BaldjetRe @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor You: "lost cause lmao" The governor of New York, publicly, on video: "our tax base has been eroded, can someone please go to Palm Beach and bring the rich people home"

@PredictableArc @Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor They've been saying rich people are leaving since 2009, this is simply a lost cause y'all are riding on lmao

On March 11, Hochul said at a Politico summit: "I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state." Then she told her wealthy supporters to "visit Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, because our tax base has been eroded."

@Richerd1378272 @NYCMayor This isn’t even true lmao

@WoIstMeinPanzer @selise @SVRohr @NYCMayor You're describing unemployment. That's what happens when investment stops. If you want fewer people fired, you need more people willing to build and hire. Taxing the return out of that equation doesn't help the guy with $20. It eliminates the job he was supposed to get.

@PredictableArc @selise @SVRohr @NYCMayor Some people WILL die because they were fired from work and have not even 20 dollars to their name. Guess which group is more prevalent in American society.

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible. 
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

You’re calling spending “investment” without showing how it increases output. Public services can improve living conditions, but they don’t inherently create the kind of growth that funds the system. If the people generating returns see lower returns, they adjust. That’s the constraint you keep ignoring.

@PredictableArc @selise @SVRohr @NYCMayor Besides the proposed taxes won't be distributed out on the streets as stimulus cheques to random bystanders. The proposed investment areas are all long-term, high reward areas. Be it 2K and 3K, or free busses or SMT helplines. They help everyone in the city including the rich

That’s not ROI, that’s a subsidy You’re lowering the cost of living for some by raising the cost of producing for others An “ecosystem” only works if it generates more output than it consumes If you make it easier to live but harder to build, invest, and scale, you don’t get growth. You get dependency. That’s not a return, it's redistribution with a nicer label

@PredictableArc @selise @SVRohr @NYCMayor The ROI is there. You simply refuse to see it. In a city like NYC where it is gradually becoming less possible to live in and to work in, the coming years will only see a bigger labour insufficiency. By making it easier for people to live in New York, you create an ecosystem.

China isn’t a flex, it’s a closed system. People can’t freely move, capital is controlled, and the state dictates outcomes. That’s why it “works.” The U.S. isn’t that. ~65% homeownership, top-tier incomes, high consumption living standards. So no, it’s not collapsing. You’re advocating higher costs without creating more growth or return. In an open system, people don’t sit there and take it. They leave.

@PredictableArc @selise @SVRohr @NYCMayor Besides, there are fucking types of capitalism you buffoon. China thrived on Keynesian Capitalism/State Capitalism. Is it anything like American neoliberalism slop? Does America have a homeownership rate over 90%? Did America see an increase or a decrease in any QoL metric?

Higher taxes only work if the return is there. Mamdani raises costs without increasing returns. The “return” is redistribution, not growth or capital upside. That’s not ROI for the people funding it. In a mobile world, people and capital leave. We’ve seen this before. Eventually, the money runs out.

@PredictableArc @selise @SVRohr @NYCMayor What Zohran proposes is not even close to the amount of regulations and taxes imposed at the bottom of that capitalist American curve. You people need a severe reality check.

Nice U-curve. Too bad the bottom wasn't built on socialism, it was still capitalist America post-WWII. Every full Zohran-style experiment elsewhere (USSR, Venezuela, Cuba, Mao's China) ended in collapse, not booms. Cute graph. Got data from any economy that actually thrived on this? Nah.

@SVRohr @NYCMayor ourworldindata.org/grapher/income…

@NYCMayor So your response is to deploy an economic strategy that has a century of recorded failure. It'll work this time, guys.

We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.

@Bubblebathgirl He definitely slapped her ass

Eric Swalwell’s lawyer, Sara Azari, says the allegations against Swalwell are false, yet “he’s been advised not to make any statements.” If Swalwell was innocent, he would be suing the accusing women for defamation and not resigning from Congress. He would also not be quiet. He would be going on every news show he could to insist he’s innocent. Swalwell knows he’s likely going to jail for his sex crimes. That’s the real reason he’s bailing on his political career. (newsnationnow on TT)