Stop Zohran Mamdani 🇺🇸 🗽 🍎

Zohran Mamdani only became a United States citizen 7 years ago and has never even had a real private sector job. What business does he have running New York City, the largest city in the West, and the financial capital of the world? It is imperative we #StopZohranMamdani.

@romneynation Indeed.

Every day Zohran Mamdani finds a new way to be a truly wicked person

@NYCMayor @iamcardib You’re the Mayor of New York City, Zohran. Focus on governing instead of doing random video ops for an even sillier “competition”. You are a complete and total scam artist, Zohran.

Get ready, New York. @iamcardib will be judging YOUR jingles to help spread the word about universal childcare for 2 year olds — aka 2-K. Submit your song by April 17. Full guidelines at nyc.gov/jingle. (Tag #NYC2KJingle and @nycmayor if you post your jingle on social media.)

@NYCMayor @iamcardib Not only are you blowing hardworking taxpayers’ money on “free” childcare that’s not even free, but now you hire this trash to advertise it while NYC is staring down a billions-dollar deficit? You are a fucking joke!

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani and Cardi B announce applications for his FAKE Universal Childcare program open June 2.

Heed @KennyBurgosNY’s warning, folks. The Emperor Nero, @NYCMayor, is fiddling while Rome burns. You elected him. What will you do when the till runs dry?

I guess one cannot expect a social democrat 'cathonomist' to think straight. China lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty after it rejected full-blown communism and significantly liberalized its economy. At this point, it is even debatable whether China or most of the West is actually closer to capitalism. Anyway, they still remain one of the worst economic underperformers globally relative to their human capital, and the poorest Chinese country in the world.

California: > be capitalist > companies win > massive prosperity > enough taxes to fund nice causes > bureaucrats take over > works for a while > works even with some fraud > more causes, more taxes, more fraud > too much taxes > companies leave > not enough tax revenue > ——- you are here —— > expand taxes to lower brackets to backfill > nobody wants to cut welfare > fraudsters keep wheels turning > blame companies > more taxes > more companies leave > state goes bankrupt

Let’s make this simple for Oren: Tariffs are taxes. Congress has the power to tax and spend. More government through taxes or otherwise will make the problems worse, as we’ve seen over the last year. Read this: vanceginn.substack.com/p/trade-builds…

In the UK, pensions grow each year with wages, inflation, or 2.5%, whichever is highest. So every year, pensions either keep pace or get more expensive. Every other group is constantly falling behind the elderly. End this madness. richardhanania.com/p/start-demago…

increase your gdp per capita. thats all that matters

Americans fly to Turkey for $3,000 dental implants that cost $40,000 in Manhattan. They drive to Tijuana for $800 MRIs priced at $12,000 in San Diego (literally 15 minutes north). Medical tourism revenue hit $100 billion globally in 2023 while US healthcare spending broke $4.5 trillion. The market speaks louder than any policy wonk ever could. When you can get the same cardiac surgery in Bangkok for $15,000 that costs $200,000 in Boston—using the same equipment, often better facilities, and surgeons trained at Johns Hopkins—the pricing isn't reflecting scarcity or quality. It's reflecting capture. Insurance companies created this beautiful racket where they negotiate "discounts" off artificially inflated prices, hospitals play along because the government backstops the whole charade through Medicare reimbursements, and pharmaceutical companies... well, they just price whatever the market will bear (which turns out to be everything you own plus your firstborn). Austrian school economists predicted this decades ago. When you remove price signals and direct payment, costs explode. When Americans rediscover actual market prices by flying to Mumbai for heart surgery, suddenly they remember what healthcare actually costs when providers compete for cash-paying customers instead of...

CA and WA are solving wealth and income inequality. By driving out billionaires, they are driving down their gini coefficients. So if you live on the West Coast, you should be feeling better now.

The welfare state => socialism => communism

Labour Finance Minister Roger Douglas saved New Zealand with his 1984 neoliberal reforms.

New Zealand politicians spent decades treating their economy like a SimCity game—tweaking wage controls, subsidizing failing industries, and micromanaging currency flows. By 1984, inflation hit 15%, unemployment soared past 7%, and the government borrowed money just to keep the lights on. The "Kiwi miracle" wasn't really miraculous at all.

Imagine trying to do this today. You can't because it would be politically and socially impossible. We've become a shell of our former selves. Neutered by bureaucracy and red tape.

The US deficit isn’t a revenue problem—it’s a spending problem. Taxes on the wealthy or new levies won’t fix deficits: high taxes shrink the base, and 98% of revenue shortfalls come from unchecked government spending, says Cato’s @veroderugy. ow.ly/GNjU50YC3MG

The greatest economic experiment in America plays out daily between California and Texas, and the results scream one truth: markets work, bureaucrats don't. California collected $220 billion in state taxes in 2023 while Texas managed with $78 billion. You'd expect California's superior public services to justify spending nearly three times more per capita. Instead, California leads the nation in homelessness (181,000 people), hosts crumbling infrastructure despite the nation's highest gas taxes, and watches middle-class families flee to states that don't treat productivity as a crime. Sacramento's bureaucrats burn through $600 billion annually (state and local combined) yet somehow can't keep the lights on during summer or prevent human waste from covering sidewalks in San Francisco. Texas collected far less but delivered what people actually want: functioning infrastructure, reliable energy, and the revolutionary concept that you keep most of what you earn. Since 2010, Texas gained 4 million residents while California hemorrhaged over 500,000. This isn't random migration; it represents human capital fleeing confiscatory taxation in search of economic freedom. Tesla, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard didn't relocate to Texas for the weather. Voluntary exchange creates wealth while coercive redistribution destroys it. Every dollar California's legislature redistributes first gets extracted from someone who earned it, then filtered through bureaucratic machinery that consumes massive resources while producing zero value. Meanwhile, every dollar Texans keep in their pockets gets invested, saved, or spent according to individual preference—generating real economic activity. California's political class promises paradise through taxation while delivering dysfunction through redistribution. Texas proves you can fund essential government services without turning citizens into tax cattle for an ever-expanding administrative state.