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Ackman said he was “gravely concerned” because he believed the left-wing candidate’s policies would be disastrous, triggering an exodus of the wealthy that would endanger New York’s public services by hollowing out its tax base.
Fake fucking news. Well all know the wealthy don't pay taxes.
This won't cause the exodus of the wealthy. It will cause an exodus of the greedy.
Tl;dr: New Yorkers should elect Zohran Mamdani as their mayor, and should re-elect him as long as he chooses to serve.
Got it. Locked in. Never been clearer.
Thanks Bill Ackman!
This is just blatant corruption
System working as designed. You see, Russia and China are the real problem.
Always follow the money. Why are GOP and billionaires afraid and against this man who pledges to help the poor and struggling working class? Because they obviously have an interest in keeping the poor and struggling in the status quo conditions in which they live.
If helping the poor didn't hurt their bottom line, they wouldn't pay to keep it from happening.
Guy kinda sounds like a douchebag
FOR SALE: NYC MAYOR
Price: Name your price.
Seller information: The putrid scum that a weeks worth of soaking in bleach wouldn't remove the stench from.
Whenever I see anything like this I remember my days working for large American companies and how difficult it was, even as a senior engineer, to get spending approval for anything. Like, even a $20 replacement headset I had to keep resubmitting applications for for three weeks because the managers had a policy of rejecting every first request on the theory that if it was important enough to spend company money on, it was important enough to fill in the form twice.
The point being, these sorts of people do not hand out a single penny without running the numbers and realising that the cost of rigging an election multiplied by the probability of success, is still lower than what they'll financially gain from it going a certain way.
I remember the last time it was run. It's why we got president Bloomberg. Oh wait. Why would he actually reference Bloomberg himself whilst suggesting this? Did he just forget exactly how badly this worked?
bill isnt a thoughtful boy
at what point is it cheaper to just pay taxes than buying politicians? mindless greed from control freaks.
It’s such a mild change too. If you make $1.1 million then your NYC taxes go up $2000 under Mamdani’s plan.
Sounds like he is a frightened douche-canoe. Fuck that guy.
by hollowing out its tax base
As if the wealthy pay taxes. GTFO with that BS.
Ackman wants more Luigi in his NYC I guess
Okay, but Cuomo spent triple what Zohran spent, and got his ass kicked.
Tell you what, just distribute all that money to your employees, and the result of the election will be the same as if you blew it all on a loser.
Remember when Bloomberg tried running for president for like 2 weeks?
Somehow I expect similar effect, burning cash without budging almost anyone.
I'm gravely concerned that billionaires are allowed to exist
And it's all because he's ~~a dirty democrat~~ ~~a dirty muslim~~ ~a dirty ~socialist~~ will let poor people be less poor and rich people be a little less rich
New York mayoral races are notoriously unpredictable due to the city’s chronically low turnout. In 2017, for example, Bill de Blasio won reelection with only 14% of registered voters coming out to support him.
Damn, my hopes for Mamdani just got even higher. Low turnout under ordinary circumstances give high-enthusiasm candidates an advantage, by that enthusiastic base's relative size to the ordinarily voting electorate.
Who owns the voting machines? Is the software audited? Are there tabulation servers?
“For the aspiring politician there is no better way to get name recognition, build relationships with long-term donors, and to showcase oneself,” the hedge fund manager wrote, pitching the campaign like a business deal. “The risk/reward of running for mayor over the next 132 days is extremely compelling as the cost in time and energy is small and the upside is enormous.”
Who wants to suck our dicks? Get to the dick sucking now! The chance never has been greater. We need our dicks sucked and will pay handsomely! If we like it, we'll pass you around to suck even more dicks!
The wealthy can leave… nobody cares… if they don’t want to live in a nice city they can easily afford to move.
Gentlemen, this is plutocracy manifest!
This mother fucker claiming that wealthy are paying their share of taxes is jokes lmao and implying that the money actually is applied properly is also
So hes a Trump supporter but doesn't like Sliwa so he's just going to fund an independent? Lmao.
Its good that he's not just funding Sliwa, looks like a rift is forming in the red party.
I mean if money is all you need to win an election is it really an election? These people are fuckin ghouls.