From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid
JTEM posted:
>
> This is from last October, October 2025:
>
> On 10/24/25 2:26 PM, JTEM wrote:
>
> > I channeled Nostradamus:
> >
> > Mamdani is either a Trojan Horse, a fiscal conservative coming in the
> > name of a raging socialist, or NYC is doomed.
>
> Still strongly suspect that he's a Trojan horse. Though, the call for
> taxes seems the opposite move for a fiscal reformer.
He's already angering many of his own former allies. If
he's a Trojan Horse, he's not doing it very well.
>
> Some new taxes may be necessary, i dunno, but I fiscal reformer is
> usually conservative leaning, in practice if not philosophy, and
> they look at curbing expenses rather than hiking tax revenues...
>
> I suspect -- and I am by no means certain here. Call it "60%
> certain" -- that he's floating the big tax balloon in order to kill
> it.
>
> Like: "Well I tried so hard to make everything free but those big
> blue meanies wouldn't let me raise taxes on everyone no I meant the
> billionaires. So I have no choice but to CUT the budget instead of
> jacking it up beyond comprehension."
>
> I'd say that I'm 60% confident that this is what he's doing...
>
>
> Remember: The art of politics is to say say precisely what you do
> not mean.
>
> And this is for a good reason. It's because if you tell people what
> you're going to do, you instantly create opposition to it. And this
> is true even for things that might be popular, have majority support.
> But when you get into things like chopping the budget, get rid of all
> the fat, CUTTING PUBLIC SERVICES, you're setting yourself on fire if
> you let people know in advance.
He doesn't want to cut services, he wants to expand them.
His only problem is that he's going to chase away from the
city the very people he needs to to pay for all his free
stuff.
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