Socialism/Communism

HOW IS SOCIALISM GOING IN NEW YORK

He said that before he became mayor of New York City, he "was told that you could only be a democratic socialist in northwest Queens." "Then I became the mayor, now the next question is the state, then it'll be, the next question will it be the country," he said.

This is the Democratic Party’s plan. With the Socialist leadership of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez working with Zohran Mamdani, New York City is quickly becoming influenced and run by numerous Democratic Socialists in city councils, the state and the federal legislature.

Replacing private insurance with a state-run single-payer health-care system – CO same
Implementing more intervention in the housing market, including further rent regulation, more rent subsidies, and a $5 billion government-housing construction program- CO first homeowner down payment
Ceasing to collect fares on New York City public buses
Providing universal no-cost child care- CO same
Reducing, if not eliminating, access to charter schools – CO same
Ceasing to collect tuition at state-owned universities – CO same
Reconfiguring the system for electricity generation, much of which would be publicly owned- CO not yet.
Taking over local gas and electric utilities and expanding redistributive rate schemes- CO not yet.

Creating a state-run bank. - CO not yet.

Mamdani’s Socialistic plans are similar to many Democratic Party Platforms for “blue” states. The following plans of Mamdani as compared to Colorado’s Democratic Party Platform.

As you can see, Democratic Socialism is creeping into our lives as well.

Mr. Mamdani's campaign made lofty, utopian promises: free public transit, free tuition, more public housing, sweeping debt cancellation and massive overhauls of systems far beyond his authority, all paid for by huge tax increases. The last thing New York and other blue jurisdictions need is higher taxes. People are already fleeing cities and states with sky-high taxes. The 2030 census will reveal the extent of this shift, leading to these blue states losing even more congressional representation and political power.

Mamdani’s socialistic taunts of big business are misguided. When big companies leave New York City due to rising costs to operate here, Mamdani’s constituents are the true victims. Already, by last year, JP Morgan Chase, which was founded in New York City more than 200 years ago and has 24,000 employees still in New York today, has started moving workers out of New York by the thousands. Texas has now already surpassed New York as the largest base of its workers with 30,000 employees there, and with another 15,000 based in Miami. Other pillars of New York’s financial community such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have similarly been relocating workers thousands of miles away from Wall Street. In earlier years, such global beacons of American capitalism and major employers of choice, from American Airlines and AT&T to Exxon and International Paper fled their historic New York homes for Texas. The loss of such businesses takes away jobs and the vital tax base needed to support infrastructure, social services, as well as educational and cultural institutions, while eroding economic development. ‌

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan aims to transfer building ownership from negligent, "bad actor" landlords to community land trusts. This includes Community Land Trusts (CLTs), nonprofit housing managers, or transitioning buildings to tenant-owned co-ops. The aggressive property-transfer initiative forms a central pillar of his $22 billion, 10-year "Block by Block" housing agenda.

The plan commits to a major shift toward social housing, including establishing CLTs to gradually buy housing on the private market, ending subsidies for luxury developments, and giving tenants the "right of first refusal" to buy their buildings when they go up for sale. The idea is to remove owners who chronically fail to maintain their buildings or rack up massive violations and unpaid taxes.

This is socialism at work. Heavily tax the rich and large corporations and use the money to pay for all the “redistribute the wealth” programs. It is coming here and is already at work in Washington, California, Vermont, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. There are now nine Socialist mayors in the above states.