What "balanced budget?" Mamdani got a massive bailout from the state of New York, and deferred pension payments.
It's classic third worldism, made possible by a low-information electorate that not only can't do the math, but lacks instinctual skepticism of the idea of a free lunch. Chicago went down the same path, and found that these gimmicks work until they don't.
With their balanced budget and no social services cut?
What "balanced budget?" Mamdani got a massive bailout from the state of New York, and deferred pension payments.
It's classic third worldism, made possible by a low-information electorate that not only can't do the math, but lacks instinctual skepticism of the idea of a free lunch. Chicago went down the same path, and found that these gimmicks work until they don't.