Elections NYC mayoral race

At least NYC doesn't have a Mayor like Nero who was out of town while the city burned to the ground.
 
Scerpi said:
My goodness... It gets better and better

All this "Free stuff"... and no way to pay for it



Mamdani shortchanges MTA — by $621M — in preliminary budget while pushing free buses​

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Mamdani shortchanges MTA — by $621M — in preliminary budget while pushing free buses

The Big Apple will need to pay about $621 million more than the Mamdani administration has penciled in for MTA subsidies in fiscal year 2027, according to the New York City Comptroller’s offi…
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The Mamdani administration has grossly underestimated how much it will owe the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the mayor’s first budget, even as he pursues a campaign pledge to make city buses free, a budget watchdog said.

New York City will need to pay about $621 million more than the Mamdani administration has penciled in for MTA subsidies in fiscal year 2027, according to the New York City Comptroller’s office, which called out “contributions to MTA” as one of the clearest examples of chronic underbudgeting in the plan.

Still, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has not dropped his pledge to make city buses free, a proposal that could cost roughly $800 million.

Mamdani’s preliminary plan overlooks how quickly New York City’s operating support for the MTA has been rising. Independent Budget Office figures show subsidies increasing from about $1.2 billion in fiscal year 2023 to $1.4 billion in 2024. The IBO issued a report last year that said subsidies for 2025 were on pace to exceed that.

The city’s Access‑A‑Ride reimbursement has also jumped from about $250 million in 2023 to $465 million in 2024 after state budget language increased New York City’s share of the cost to as high as 80%. Five months into fiscal year 2025, New York City had already spent $218 million on paratransit, according to the IBO.

Student fare costs are climbing as well. The Department of Education’s lump sum payment to the MTA for Student OMNY cards rose from $45 million to $50.5 million with the rollout of year‑round, 24/7 student tap privileges in the 2024-25 school year and will increase along with fare hikes the MTA instituted in January.

MTA leaders have warned they would sooner raise fares than significantly rein in spending.

The authority’s board last year approved a $21.3 billion operating budget for 2026 that builds in back‑to‑back fare and toll increases of roughly 4% while still projecting deficits later in the decade. At that meeting, an MTA finance committee member cautioned that the plan could mean “even more” hikes if new revenue does not materialize.

The agency is also under scrutiny for record overtime spending and nearly $1 billion a year in fare evasion losses, fueling doubts about its ability to competently self‑fund new mandates like Mamdani’s free bus pledge.


And LOL at MTA's attempt to limit bus fare evasion... Took about 5 minutes to defeat it

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Wait.... this isn't staged as a joke? Everyone passing through looks like they're in on the joke. The guy picking his nose, the dude looking left and right. The one smiling, the fact the lady holding out a phone ahead of time. I figured this was a promo video made to stop stuff like this but I honestly don't know.
 
Ares Black said:
Canada and the United States share a great deal of history, culture, and cooperation. Blue states are quite similar in a lot of ways to the civilized parts of Canada.
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And you think claiming this gives you the right to tell Americans they can't comment on what happens in a city in their own country?
 
A Very Serious Cat said:
Why bother reminding him if it doesn't matter? Why post this to some other guy:
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Because he's very bad at minding his own business and worrying about his own life.
A Very Serious Cat said:
I'm not sure what the significance of telling people where they live
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Some dipshit who lives in Texas has absolutely fuck all in common with people who live in New York City.
 
Ares Black said:
Because he's very bad at minding his own business and worrying about his own life.

Some dipshit who lives in Texas has absolutely fuck all in common with people who live in New York City.
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Again, it appears that you think he's not allowed to comment because they're not from NY and don't have enough in common with NY whereas some Canadian is allowed is allowed to talk all the shit he wants.

Following your logic every immigrant to a foreign nation should keep their heads bowed and shit the fuck up about everything to do with dominant culture because after all they're not from there and have little in common with them. Somehow I think you'd balk at this though because you're just some lolcow with no real ideas beyond huffing your own farts.
 
A Very Serious Cat said:
Again, it appears that you think he's not allowed to comment because they're not from NY and don't have enough in common with NY whereas some Canadian is allowed is allowed to talk all the shit he wants.
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He can comment all he wants. And does. Frequently.
A Very Serious Cat said:
Following your logic every immigrant to a foreign nation should keep their heads bowed and shit the fuck up about everything to do with dominant culture because after all they're not from there and have little in common with them. Somehow I think you'd balk at this though because you're just some lolcow with no real ideas beyond huffing your own farts.
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What in the world are you talking about?

You are not a serious cat.
 
nostradumbass said:
Gotta say, for as much as I said he'd do a horrible job, even I didn't expect him to fuck things up this quickly. Figured they'd at least have a honeymoon period then a gradual decline into oblivion like every other socialist, not less than 2 months in and he's broken every promise, has a death toll of like 30 from leaving bums outside during a blizzard, his "impoverish the white middle class" tenant organizer burst into tears and sprinted down the road after getting busted for being a complete hypocrite, his "fast free buses" turned into fares actually increasing, the budget is fucked, their doordash and instacart "minimum wage" backfired, and his "housing affordability" has now turned into property taxes and rents increasing.

Well done, 20 year old chicks and randos who've lived there less than a year who voted for him. <lol>

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Great post. The only thing surprising here is how fast it happened. New York's suffering will surely be a learing experience for the next charlatan Marxist...

Imagine having some of this leftist horseshit (below) in your budget then telling the plebs who supported you that the only way to balance things is to raise their property taxes and defund police forces. The icing on the cake; trying to justify a raid on pension and rainy day funds because they were tapped into by previous administrations due to housing and covid crises.

Current crisis funding
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Imagine how much other wastes of tax dollars are in that budget.
 
GtehMVP said:
Great post. The only thing surprising here is how fast it happened. New York's suffering will surely be a learing experience for the next charlatan Marxist...

Imagine having some of this leftist horseshit (below) in your budget then telling the plebs who supported you that the only way to balance things is to raise their property taxes and defund police forces. The icing on the cake; trying to justify a raid on pension and rainy day funds because they were tapped into by previous administrations due to housing and covid crises.

Current crisis funding
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Imagine how much other wastes of tax dollars are in that budget.
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This graphic is relying heavily on viewers not understanding the difference between a million and a billion.
 
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