Access to food, transportation, housing, it’s almost like he thinks the job of government is providing decent infrastructure.
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Or "insur[ing] domestic Tranquility,...promot[ing] the general welfare." The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.
People act like $30/hr is high. Note this would be the mayor of NYC, so it would be raised for NYC only if he got his way. The cheapest place you can get to live on your own there I am finding is 2600 a month. So say you made 30/hr. That's $62,400 working 40 hours a week. Take out Federal/state/city taxes ends up being around $46,112 take home. The place costed $31,200. Making the lowest rent findable in Manhattan 2/3 of $30/hr.
They wouldn't be able to get approved to even live there if they tried. They would have to rent a room from someone else with a 4 bedroom place renting to 4 people for around $1200/ month. And share bathrooms/kitchen/living space with people. And they would still struggle to get by if they paid for health insurance, travel costs to and from work, food, and the whole living crap.
$30 isn't radical for NYC, it's like base needed salary... And hope you have a good stable relationship with someone else making the same, then maybe you can get your own place together, just don't do something stupid like get pregnant because you can't afford to not go to work, and can't afford to put them in daycare so you would both have to uproot and move real quick finding jobs elsewhere.
Wait, we are gonna vote for a guy who is going to make renting a room more affordable?! COMMUNISM!! I WONT STAND FOR SUCH LUXURY LIVING CONDITIONS! /s
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Jesus would NEVER Approve of ANY of these! AFFORDABLE housing? Jesus would BURN it to The Ground! PROTECTING your Neighbor? LAUGHABLE! This is the MOST Anti Jesus Platform EVER! Where's the ELIMINATING Healthcare? Where's the ELIMINATING Homes? Where's the HURTING your Neighbors? Where's the JESUS!
Here's how I think they see this:
Landlords will go out of business. For-profit grocery stores will go out of business. People I don't know won't suffer (there's even more letters at the end and I don't know what they mean; that scares me). Businesses will have to pay more to operate, therefore prices will rise for me to protect profits. Brown people will still be where I have to see and interact with them.
Conservatives are fearful. They think when someone gets something good, it's by taking from them. Fuck 'em.
Brown people will still be where I have to see and interact with them.
They don't even try to hide their racism anymore.
Look at this monster.
Americans will just go "this guy wants to instate free healthcare, cleanse police corruption, and to stop bombing the middle east!" and expect you to reel back in disgust.
Because their MAGAt base will in fact reel back in disgust if any of those things are proposed. If "the libs" want it, then MAGA is programmed to hate it.
See how the fox piece looks? It has the politicians face, then they let MAGA know the guy is a "lib", likely with the set up talking points. That is all MAGAts need, a face and to know the person is on the other side ... from there anything else mentioned about the person is automatically bad.
In 3 years Fox news will just show a picture of the political opponent's face with the caption "this guy is a lib" which will send every MAGAt into a murderous rage
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Yes but many of these would require taxing the rich, which I’m against because I might somehow become rich one day through virtually no effort or understanding of how one becomes rich to begin with
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That's it right there. Just mentioning the phrase tax the rich has become enough of a catalyst for the punching down to intensify. Keep the pressure on.
You know they're mad
This is the future that those who are controlling the conservative platform are trying to prevent.
Make no mistake this is and always will be a class war about stealing the value of workers for their own personal gain.
Democrat leadership is also not happy with Mamdani. He isn't following the rules, like David Hogg, or AOC.
Fuck the establishment Democratic Party reps, run them all out of office because they will never get it. We need a new deal not conservative appeasement.
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City owned grocery shops? I...wut. This breaks my mind. Not in WTF is this way, just how would this work. Curious how it will come out and hoping for the best.
The city owns and runs the grocery stores. They're not required to make huge profits and can therefore offer reasonable prices. They can buy directly from local suppliers, thus creating or securing local jobs. Basically, if you cut out all the bloodsuckers, things become much better.
The thing is, actual capitalist theory suggests it wouldn't "cut out" bloodsuckers at all. It would force them to compete but they would survive, presumably just fine.
A public option is definitely a socialist platform, but unless the government stores are allowed to operate at a loss indefinitely, supplemented by tax dollars, they pose NO real threat to those businesses, only to greedy gouging.
If there was a functioning market economy, none of this shit would be necessary in the first place.
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It's a pilot program for a few stores.
The city currently has a program where they're paying private grocery stores to try and mitigate food deserts, but there's so few strings attached it's just free money to the shops.
He's proposing ending that, and using the money to directly open grocery stores in food deserts run as city owned coops.
It's not infringing on private business because they're not operating in these areas anyway.
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What a monster! Making the lives of people better, like a maniac!
That's some poor propaganda, comrade fox news. You should've rendered it in Arabic or Chinese to scare them out
Its crazy that NYC still can't afford free public transportation. City literally has more expensive apartments than yearly cost of operating busses.
Free buses aren’t something you really need to “afford” because even in smaller cities the economic value returned through that way of operating is given back and then some. Like, they’ve been throwing free money on the ground for decades upon decades and it’s about time shit catches up to reality.
Bus fares make up only like 2% of the income for my cities public transit system. They can afford to go free.
Right but I think you’ve missed my entire point somehow. Literally it is cheaper to not charge anything for transit. You don’t need to afford it, you just have to do it. It is free money, understand?
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