ROGER FROIKIN, WRITER – ANALYST
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT
I expect a Mamdani Administration will start with things that do not require anything other than city council votes.
1. DEFUND THE POLICE – A New York City with many fewer police. Who you gonna call when there is crime on Mamdani free subways, Ghost Busters? . Move money from the budget for police to other purposes, cutting the police by 10-15 %. This is on top of cuts made several years ago under De Blasio,
And a higher crime rate, will chase out just the people who can afford to leave which means those he has promised to tax.
NY’s crime is a serious problem now, statistics are down, not crime, because the police are not enforcing the law.
EXPECT MAMDANI CUTTING POLICE BY AT LEAST 15% TO PAY FOR HIS OTHER PROMISES.
2. RENT CONTROL – Mamdani wants a massive expansion of Rent Control apartments — and when your landlord cannot afford repairs because of Mamdani higher taxes, what will you do, fix your own toilet, stop the leaks in your kitchen, get neighbors to clean the hallways? Ask Mamdani. He lives in a rent-controlled apartment though his income is more than $ 200,000 and when he is tired of it he goes to his home in the Hamptons or his property in Uganda.
3. NO SCHOOL CHOICE – Mamdani wants to end all school choice. Though, Mamdani went to an elite private school and had free tuition at Columbia University. One standard for Mamdani and his friends — another for all of you.
The NY City School system is not what it was 50 years ago when it popped the nation. Only 30% of graduates can read fairly well, It will decline further.
4. FREE FOOD – Free Government Grocery stores. Like Cuba and Venezuela. Get there before 8 AM or the shelves will be empty. Who will manage these stores? Learn to speak Arabic or Urdu to get service, but all the meat will be Halal. Mamdani’s grocery promise, will take some time. He has no idea how to do it, but when it happens, he will pull in Muslim shop owners to run it, emphasizing Hallal products.
5. ANTI-WESTERN CULTURE – And what about culture and services. Well, they depend, for the most part on charities supported by just those who Mamdani wants to chase away with higher taxes and higher crime rates. I’m sure the citizens of Florida and Texas will appreciate all the money now going to help the poor in NYC or support the Metropolitan, or the great museums of NYC that now will not be able to afford to keep themselves clear nor to offer free access.
6. CALL TO PRAYER – Staring in Queens and extending in time to the rest of the city. Better than an alarm clock at 3:30 AM. And expect zoning laws to be relaxed for Mosques in more areas, claiming that discrimination limited permits for Muslims in the past (shout truth is the casualty as in all Communist states.) He will order relief for potential Mosques and Islamic Schools, from current licensing and restrictive zoning regulations, falsely claiming that it evens the playing field.
7. FREE RIDES – Mamdani will push for free subway and bus transportation, with a start date, sometime in February.
5. INCREASE TAXES – Mamdani will have the Council pass a tax bill – adding to income and property taxes for people with incomes in the upper 25% in the city and properties with valuation in the upper 10% of properties. As I have been told, the State must authorize the tax increase, but I assume the Governor – a Democrat – will. Money already allocated to cleaning, garbage collection, and other current city services will have to be shifted to Mamdani programs while tax increases which take time can be done, and when they fall short anyway.
7. HIRING – and expanding hiring in NY City will give preference to minorities, DEI style.
8. BYE BYE NYC – In the meantime, Wall Street Firms, which already experienced Remote working during Covid, will start relocating offices to Jacksonville. (J.P. Morgan-Chase already has done so), Miami, and Texas, providing moving expenses and relocation services to employees. People moving only limited by whether they can sell homes in NY and whether their mortgages are underwater)
9. IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT – And when Mamdani’s plans get blocked by the State or when they are seen as failure, Mamdani and his allies will say, it is not that they were wrong, but that the Fascist Trump Islamophobic Jews blocked progress, playing the victim who tried to help the poor. And the DNC will back him because they hate Trump.