{"id":189679,"date":"2026-04-08T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:44:14","slug":"the-new-york-city-council-counters-mamdanis-tax-the-rich-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189679\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York City Council Counters Mamdani\u2019s Tax-the-Rich Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToday, we\u2019re looking at\u00a0the New York City Council\u2019s proposed budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Citywide Racial Equity Plan, recent Supreme Court rulings about transgender rights, and new signage at the President\u2019s House Site exhibit in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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Last week, the New York City Council released its proposed budget for fiscal 2027. John Ketcham and Christian Browne note that while the plan isn\u2019t perfect, it\u2019s still \u201cmore fiscally responsible and pro-economic growth\u201d than Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s.<\/p>\n

To eliminate the city\u2019s budget gap, the council\u2019s proposal relies on revenue re-estimates and targeted tax increases\u2014but far more modest ones than Mamdani wants. \u201cThe council seems to recognize that the city will imperil its long-term viability by imposing ever-more taxation on the high earners and corporations that employ millions of New Yorkers,\u201d Ketcham and Browne write.<\/p>\n

\nRead more<\/a> about the budget proposal.<\/p>\n

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\nEarlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a Citywide Racial Equity Plan that seeks to address the city\u2019s high cost of living with, as Santiago Vidal Calvo puts it, \u201ca sprawling managerial framework.\u201d Indeed, the mayor\u2019s plan spans 45 agencies and contains more than 200 goals, 600 indicators, and 800 strategies. The result? \u201cAn administrative fog machine that substitutes box-checking for attaining outcomes New Yorkers care about,\u201d Vidal Calvo writes. \u201cThe sheer bureaucracy on display here is staggering.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

It makes little sense to expand the government even further when Mamdani already faces a budget shortfall of between $5.4 and $7.1 billion. \u201cNew York doesn\u2019t need more government frameworks or new cost indicators,\u201d Vidal Calvo writes, but a focus on outcomes that matter\u2014\u201chousing units completed, rent burdens, childcare seats, job placement, job retention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nRead more about the plan here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nOn Inauguration Day last year, President Trump signed an executive order declaring that the U.S. recognizes two genders: male and female. \u201cCritics may have thought the order was mere symbolism,\u201d Josh Blackman writes, \u201cbut Trump\u2019s policy reflected the position around which public opinion had coalesced\u2014that asserting biological truth does not constitute bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIt didn\u2019t take long for the Supreme Court to adapt to this shift. Over the past year, the Court has ruled that the Defense Department could discharge transgender service members, that states could prohibit gender transition for minors, that parents can opt their children out of LGBTQ teachings, that the State Department can print passports that list only a person\u2019s biological sex, that schools can\u2019t secretly transition students, and that Colorado can\u2019t prevent therapists from counseling individuals to be comfortable with their sex.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> about these Court decisions and how they reflect Americans\u2019 perceptions of transgender issues.<\/p>\n

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\nSince it opened in 2010, the President\u2019s House Site exhibit in Philadelphia has pushed a woke historical agenda. Rather than capture the momentous events of America\u2019s first two presidencies, the signage there cast many of the Founders as tyrants and failed to note their disdain for slavery. In fact, nearly all of the 30 signs at the site were devoted to race relations.<\/p>\n

\nThat might change soon. The National Park Service has designed new signs that will be installed at the site if federal courts grant approval to the Department of the Interior. The signs are more informative and balanced, address the site\u2019s broader history, and seek to understand\u2014not slander\u2014George Washington.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cOf all the actions that will mark this momentous anniversary of American independence,\u201d Jeffrey H. Anderson writes, \u201credesigning the prominently situated, heavily visited, historically significant President\u2019s House Site at Independence Park is one of the most important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt seems that the goal of most public K\u201312 \u2018education\u2019 is to produce people whose opinions are set before they can encounter any conversation in college.<\/p>\n

The goal of far too much \u2018higher\u2019 education is to preserve and further embed that mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.<\/p>\n

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