Quote from: Biggie Smiles on February 23, 2026, 08:56:17 PMMaybe a cousin or two that I never met.

I was wondering if you had family who regretted staying for this commie clown of a mayor they have now.

Quote from: Herman on February 23, 2026, 08:34:12 PMI forgot to ask you if you still have family in New York?

Maybe a cousin or two that I never met.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on February 23, 2026, 08:29:42 PMme too

I forgot to ask you if you still have family in New York?

Quote from: Herman on February 23, 2026, 08:29:05 PMI hope it gets worse.

me too

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on February 23, 2026, 08:26:52 PMI truly love it!

I hope it gets worse.

Quote from: Herman on February 23, 2026, 08:22:49 PMMamdani thanks NYC teachers for their endorsement... by raiding their retirement funds!

I truly love it!

Mamdani thanks NYC teachers for their endorsement... by raiding their retirement funds!

Zohran Mamdani built part of his campaign around a bold promise: a $30 minimum wage by 2030.

His plan called for phased increases: $20 per hour in 2027, $23.50 in 2028, $27 in 2029, and $30 in 2030. After that, wages would automatically adjust each year based on cost of living or productivity growth.

As of January 1, 2026, New York City's minimum wage is $17 per hour under state law.

But as a major winter storm approached the city this month, the Department of Sanitation activated an emergency snow-shoveling program paying $19.14 per hour. Overtime is set at $28.71 after 40 hours.

The pay rate quickly drew criticism online. Several users on X pointed to the gap between the mayor's long-term wage proposal and the city's current emergency pay scale.

Conservative commentator and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele weighed in: "Let me get this straight: Zohran Mamdani campaigned (ignorantly) on raising NYC's min wage to $30/hour, but is now begging residents to shovel snow for $19/hour??"

Steele, like others, also focused on the documentation requirements tied to the job, contrasting them with New York's voting rules, which generally do not require voters to present photo identification.

"This from someone who believes requiring ONE form of ID to vote is racist?? You just can't make this stuff up," she continued.

Quote from: Renegade Quark on February 21, 2026, 01:29:02 AMThe whole notion that taxing the rich would solve our problems is a joke. You could take ALL of the money from multimillionaire and billionaires and it would only run our government for about eleven months. Then what? The rich are now poor and the government needs money. So, where do you suppose they will turn next?

Mr. Mamdani turned to them first.

Quote from: Renegade Quark on February 21, 2026, 01:29:02 AMThe whole notion that taxing the rich would solve our problems is a joke. You could take ALL of the money from multimillionaire and billionaires and it would only run our government for about eleven months. Then what? The rich are now poor and the government needs money. So, where do you suppose they will turn next?

Precisely. There simply isn't enough super rich for them to be paying all the IOU's that socialist politicians write.

It's worth noting that Scandinavian countries which are often used as examples of "fairness" by North America's disingenuous socialist politicians tax the working poor more than Canada or the US. They don't have say a fifteen thousand dollar basic exemption where taxes start like our countries do.

The whole notion that taxing the rich would solve our problems is a joke. You could take ALL of the money from multimillionaire and billionaires and it would only run our government for about eleven months. Then what? The rich are now poor and the government needs money. So, where do you suppose they will turn next?

Quote from: Herman on February 19, 2026, 11:51:48 PM

Mr. Giuliani did an exceptional job cleaning up NYC.