{"id":89370,"date":"2026-01-05T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:31:18","slug":"mamdanis-lies-about-the-rich-are-only-meant-to-demonize-they-already-foot-nycs-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89370\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s lies about the rich are only meant to demonize — they already foot NYC’s bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTogether, we will tell a new story of our city,\u201d Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said in his inauguration speech Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will not be a tale of one city, governed only by the 1 percent. Nor will it be a tale of two cities, the rich versus the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so Mamdani picks up right where former Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/a> left off, demonizing the wealthy and sowing division.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t true then, and it isn\u2019t true now. <\/p>\n

When have the rich been \u201cversus\u201d the poor in New York City? <\/p>\n

The top 1% of earners pay 46% of the city\u2019s budget \u2014 a budget, by the way, that at $116 billion equals that of the spending for the entire state of Florida.<\/p>\n

Were the rich \u201cversus\u201d the poor when they funded billions in social services? <\/p>\n

When de\u2009Blasio wasted $1 billion on his wife\u2019s pointless Thrive mental health program?<\/p>\n

When Mayor Eric Adams<\/a> sheltered and fed 210,000 migrants from President Joe Biden\u2019s open border?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Wall Street bankers, tech company innovators and dreamers of all sorts who want to live in this city, Mamdani has a tax base of which most leaders can only dream.<\/p>\n

To him, it is still not enough. <\/p>\n

And every problem is their fault.<\/p>\n

Mamdani spun a dystopian fantasy in his speech, asking \u201cwho does New York belong to\u201d and then claiming that \u201cfor much of our history \u2026 it belongs only to the wealthy and well-connected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What is he talking about?! <\/p>\n

We must have missed the City Council meetings where committee chairs wore cravats and monocles. <\/p>\n

For much of our recent history, New York has had one-party rule: the Democrats. <\/p>\n

Is he suggesting Ed Koch, David Dinkins, de Blasio and Adams were oligarchs?<\/p>\n

Mamdani railed against \u201ccrowded classrooms and public housing developments where the elevators sit out of order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is to blame for that, we wonder? <\/p>\n

If classrooms are crowded, it\u2019s because parents want to get their kids into the best schools, because the union refuses to hold bad teachers to account. <\/p>\n

With public housing, they\u2019ve made residents feel less safe by letting gang members go free without bail.<\/p>\n

We spend more per student than almost anywhere else in America.<\/p>\n

Our welfare budget is the size of a small country. <\/p>\n

Yet Mamdani claimed his predecessors were scared to do things.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will govern expansively and audaciously,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo those who insist that the era of big government is over, hear me when I say this: No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not how much money we\u2019re spending, but the bad ideas that never change. <\/p>\n

Before Mayor Mamdani starts writing more checks, maybe he should consider that he needs better solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTogether, we will tell a new story of our city,\u201d Zohran Mamdani said in his inauguration speech Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9894,98,100,99,301,304,81,874,9,24,63,299,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-89370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bill-de-blasio","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-city-council","13":"tag-editorial","14":"tag-eric-adams","15":"tag-joe-biden","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}