It’s on! NY Governor Hochul declares economic war on Zorro Mamdani after the election. “There’s no state money for your free bus rides and daycare . .

Photo above – Nyet! Hochul delivers the bad news to socialist NYC mayor Mamdani that he won’t get a blank check from her office to cover all the campaign promises he made.

Wow . . . I bet voters wish Governor Hochul had been this truthful about Mamdani’s pie in the sky promises BEFORE the election. Hochul simply cheered him on tirelessly and then photobombed the victory dance in the end zone.

Then this happened (see link below): Pay for it yourself, Zorro!

Hochul is now saying what the non-Socialists warned before the election: There is no free lunch. No free bus rides. No free daycare. The state of New York will not empty it’s pockets to keep Mamdani’s absurd promises to NYC voters. The notion that struggling workers in Poughkeepsie, Schenectady and Syracuse will send their money south to Mamdani was always farfetched.

Politicians have an inbred aversion to speaking the truth before elections. They will say anything to win. (“Hell is truth seen too late” – Thomas Hobbes)

Promising free bus rides to take voters' kids to free daycare is a whopper. Right up there with “build a giant wall and make Mexico pay for it” and “Obamacare will insure everyone for every disease AND eliminate the budget deficit”.

Let’s notice Governor Hochul did NOT bitchslap Mamdani over his promise to rent-freeze 2 million more city apartments. That’s NOT something Hochul would need to pilfer taxpayer money to cover. The apartment owners themselves are getting screwed. Or rather, the apartment occupants. If the monthly incoming rent checks on a building no longer cover taxes, maintenance, and repairs, then the tenants eventually live in squalor.

Mamdani himself lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens (1 bedroom, $2,300 a month), so nobody should accuse him of being a moron about how rent works. But why does Mamdani even need to squat in that rent stabilized apartment in the first place, when there are so many other MORE deserving tenants, with lower incomes? Mamdani earns $140,000 as a NY assemblyman. His wife is a renowned magazine and freelance illustrator, but won’t reveal her own income, so it’s gotta be a number greater than zero. How rich is too rich for rent subsidies? Can we debate this honestly?

This is why I constantly insist that tax returns be released for all candidates: Trump, Mamdani, Governor Pritzker (heir to a hotel fortune), Nancy Pelosi, Rick Scott. I don’t want to vote for a pauper who has no savings, and I don’t want to vote for someone whose vault holds something approaching $1 billion.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Hochul says New York's budget cannot cover Mamdani's plan for free bus rides in NYC

Avectoijesuismoi · 36-40

If you believe nonsense you deserve all you get.
There is nothing for free in life ever there is always a cost somewhere that has been disguised.
When ever a politician promises to improve things for poor people the people should be aware the only outcome for them and some of those just above them will be that there will be more poor people and the poor people will wind up being poorer than before.

Constantly giving people "free" this and that erodes their pride and makes them feel even more worthless and incapable than before. It also breeds expectations of even more for free.

Trying to overburden companies and wealthy individuals with increased taxes and they up and leave there is always somewhere else that will be willing to cut them a deal to get them and boost their economy at your expense.
Which often equals more unemployment and poverty, empty buildings that you don't get property tax from anymore etc etc etc.