Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.
The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.
The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.
Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.
Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.
Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.
I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.
People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.
This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.
If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”
These kind of women will look you dead in the face and complain about women being unsafe in public, and then vote for the guy that point blank wants to abolish prisons lol
If you hate America, then leave.
Go back to the country you came from and make that country great.
But stop trying to turn America into the place you escaped from.
The current cost to renounce your citizenship is $2,350.
I’d like to propose that the White House waive that fee until 2028 and encourage those who hate America to leave.
But with one caveat: you permanently give up the right to ever apply for U.S. citizenship again.
Go to a country you love, and contribute to that society.
Our future would be safer, happier, and filled with greater pride in what 🇺🇸 stands for.
The guy who wants to “globalize the intifada” and campaigns with an Islamist cleric with ties to the bombing of the World Trade Center says the real problem is “Islamophobia.”
We’re at the point in our Republic where major politicians are barely even citizens and openly campaign against the core principles and culture of our nation.
Foreigners illegally enter the US.
They protest being held accountable per US law by burning the flag of the country in which they want to stay while waving the flag of the country to which they refuse to return.
What an upside down world.