Gov. Kathy Hochul isn’t ready to endorse socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral run yet, she said Thursday – as she slammed his plans to raise taxes on the rich.
“I’m focused on affordability and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that,” she told reporters during an event at LaGuardia Airport.
The Democratic governor had congratulated Mamdani after his apparent win, but notably didn’t endorse him in November’s general election.
“I’m focused on affordability and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that,” she told reporters during an event at LaGuardia Airport.
What a load of fucking bullshit. Rich people can afford to pay more in taxes. That’s why they pay more in taxes.
Like, this literally helps affordability.
It’s so fucking weird to me that they act like the government can run without taxes.
It’s because they don’t actually give a shit about affordability. They just don’t wanna pay taxes.
The rot within the DNC is so pervasive. So captured by rich people and corporate lobby.
no rot spreading
what we are seeing is and has always been the Democrat party
Obama chose someone who supports segregation and that same person later became president, Harris hosted a celebrity filled gala and invited Republicans while citizens who were refused entry protested outside for everything the Democrats supposedly stand for, Walz as a governor teamed up with Trump to use police to manhandle pipeline protestors, and the list goes on
It’s spreading in the sense they are fine being so open with it
^^ This is propaganda
Okay buddy reactionary
^^this is apologia.
It’s OK, he doesn’t need her endorsement anyway, just the electorate’s. At this stage I think an establishment democrat endorsement will do more harm to Mamdani’s campaign than this shun will do.
I’m worried the Democrats are going to come out of their collective hole and pretend this was their idea from the beginning and poison zohran’s policies somehow until he’s too ineffective and unpopular to continue.
Worst case scenario in my head, but I don’t feel it’s unwarranted. Dem party fucked over Bernie and now that they have no credibility they’ll drag everyone into the mud.
As far as I’m concerned, Hochul can go right ahead and fuck herself on account of her attempted ratfucking of the congestion pricing, and doubly so for arbitrarily lowering the price and dealing a massive blow to future infrastructure in the process.
She also fucked over right to repair (unilaterally, after it passed).
What’s hochuls net worth?
Over 3million? Hrmmm I wonder why she’s not on the fun bus.
Honestly Mamdani should start telling rich people that they will benefit from these taxes too. Less homeless people and drug addicts by giving them housing and drug clinics or something.
They care about profits short term, very few large companies competently plan long term.
If they thought about it for a minute yes it’s more costly for like a generation and the next generation is cheaper and the generation after that cheaper still. Combine that with a healthier population you end up with more production for less cost and specifically less risk to business because work comp wouldn’t need to exist.
They care about individual profits. If everyone contributes their fair share, but billionaires don’t contribute, they have more profit. But society is currently falling apart because they don’t contribute their fair share, and now billionaires whine about it falling apart.
In either situation the solution is universal healthcare because profits would increase either way just not immediately, these billionaires never die so it’s not like they wouldn’t see the backend increase before they die.
3 million isn’t even wealthy anymore
Wealthy enough to care about taxes and enough to not pay them.
Honestly 3mil doesn’t give you access to the really good tax options like running a charity or multistate cattle ranch
The rich can, categorically, afford more taxes
The rich can, and always do, use their wealth to avoid taxes
Idk should I be analogizing FDR? I guess I’ll take the chance for now. FDR was not perfect.
I’m unaware of the timeline, and if this quote came before or after, but our guy here was up against literal fascists in his day. I think this makes the quote even more pithy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans’ organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow Roosevelt.
We’re up against literal fascists today, too, but this time it’s made much more progress before facing adequate resistance.
Smedley Butler was great. Imagine attempting a coup and decide to bring in a retired marine general who seems like he’s all on board with your fascist nonsense only to learn after the fact that he’s gone and been convinced of socialism
You guys expect otherwise from Cuomo’s assistant governor??
She’s a snake, like all of those establishment fuckheads.
This from the person who spent $600 million in taxpayer dollars on a new stadium that her husband’s company has a food service contract for.
Not having endorsements from establishment dems is going to lose him exactly 0 votes.
“I’m focused on affordability, and how can I afford to participate in political corruption if our ill-gotten gains are subject to taxation and scrutiny?”
Hochul is just another pile of shit in a long line of shit.
“I’m focused on affordability and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that,”
And I’m focused non you being a twat whose bought and paid for
Isn’t this the same person who wanted to set up an emergency hotline for CEOs?
Almost wish they had so New Yorkers could flood the line claiming to be CEOs.
Vote blue no matter who
…right guys?
Edit: I think I read your post backwards. Leaving my old response below anyway.
Yes. Do you think a republican would be nicer to him?
Or do you not get how first past the post works?
If this lady is not to your liking, you primary her.
They aren’t talking about her they are talking about the current Mayororal candidate she isn’t supporting despite him being the Democratic nominee
Oooooh… Yeah, that makes way more sense
