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Leave it to the New York comrade mayor Zohran Mamdani to lecture Americans on hardship while taking aim at one of the most popular and economically successful presidents in history.
During a Monday press conference, Mamdani mockingly referenced former President Ronald Reagan’s iconic 1986 quip: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Mamdani, who never ran a real business and is a failed rapper, thought of himself as a master of rhetoric. The dolt replied: “I think nine more terrifying words are actually ‘I worked all day and can’t feed my family.’”
It is a fantasy line, but is completely a figment of his tiny imagination.
Mamdani is attacking Ronald Reagan, a man whose conservative policies actually rescued the American worker, all while Mamdani practices a brand of fiscal theft today that guarantees future generations will pay the price tomorrow. If you don't believe that, ask the Teachers Union and the veterans from whom he stole money from their retirement funds and military parade funds, respectively.
Let us look at the facts.
Let us look at the facts.
When Reagan took office in 1981, the American economy was being suffocated by Carter-era stagflation, a toxic mix of double-digit inflation and high unemployment. Reagan did not use big-government handouts; he crushed inflation from 13.5 percent down to 4.1 percent. He slashed the astronomical 21.5 percent prime interest rate in half, sparked a 92-month peacetime economic expansion, and oversaw the creation of over 16 million new jobs.
Reagan’s supply-side miracle did not simply help the wealthy; it lifted everyone. Real median family income rose by 12.6 percent, and poverty rates plummeted. Minority communities thrived, with black unemployment at a near all-time low and black-owned businesses expanding by nearly 38 percent.
Aside from bashing Israel, what has Mamdani actually done?
Reagan knew that the American taxpayer did not exist to fund bureaucratic overreach. As he noted in his 1980 GOP acceptance speech, any program representing a theft from their pocketbooks had to go.
Contrast that economic boom with Mamdani’s current high-wire balancing act in New York City. He recently took a rooftop victory lap, boasting that he magically closed a 12 billion dollar budget deficit without resorting to austerity. But take a look under the hood and see that Mamdani’s solution is just a massive shell game of short-term gimmicks and fiscal procrastination.
To patch the hole for fiscal year 2027, the socialist mayor relies on roughly 2.8 billion dollars in one-time measures. He is implementing a punitive pied-a-terre tax and clawing back unincorporated business tax credits that hit self-employed New Yorkers making as little as 142,000 dollars, giving productive citizens an explicit incentive to flee the city. Worse yet, he is extending the amortization period for unfunded pension liabilities, pushing hundreds of millions in city obligations well into the 2030s.
By kicking the pension can down the road and relying on temporary state aid infusions from Albany, Mamdani is not saving New York; he is merely loading up a fiscal time bomb. Fiscal experts note that these gimmicks leave the city dangerously exposed to massive multi-billion-dollar deficits in the years ahead, topping out at an estimated 9.8 billion dollars by 2030.
Reagan knew that the American taxpayer did not exist to fund bureaucratic overreach. As he noted in his 1980 GOP acceptance speech, any program representing a theft from their pocketbooks had to go.
Contrast that economic boom with Mamdani’s current high-wire balancing act in New York City. He recently took a rooftop victory lap, boasting that he magically closed a 12 billion dollar budget deficit without resorting to austerity. But take a look under the hood and see that Mamdani’s solution is just a massive shell game of short-term gimmicks and fiscal procrastination.
To patch the hole for fiscal year 2027, the socialist mayor relies on roughly 2.8 billion dollars in one-time measures. He is implementing a punitive pied-a-terre tax and clawing back unincorporated business tax credits that hit self-employed New Yorkers making as little as 142,000 dollars, giving productive citizens an explicit incentive to flee the city. Worse yet, he is extending the amortization period for unfunded pension liabilities, pushing hundreds of millions in city obligations well into the 2030s.
By kicking the pension can down the road and relying on temporary state aid infusions from Albany, Mamdani is not saving New York; he is merely loading up a fiscal time bomb. Fiscal experts note that these gimmicks leave the city dangerously exposed to massive multi-billion-dollar deficits in the years ahead, topping out at an estimated 9.8 billion dollars by 2030.
Mamdani wants to pretend that he's the champion of the working class. In reality, Reagan’s free-market policies allowed families to feed themselves through dignity and work. Mamdani’s progressive playbook simply steals financial stability from the future to fund big-government hubris today.
And for the bonus round, he and his wife are full-blown anti-Semites.
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