Someone PLEASE tell this woman🤦🤦🤦
Wait, are you telling me that because he got elected I don’t have to pay taxes? Bonus!
“The media” love nothing more than to find the absolute most disgusting scum in our country and interview them for their opinions…
Outrage generates clicks, clicks generate revenue.
We’re both here because we’re disgusted by the headline so it obviously works.While generally true, I think “the media” does what I mentioned in order to “manufacture consent” in cases like this. They want to create the image of what is “real” and what “people you should believe” think. God forbid you should think for yourself and agree with a spooky spooky socialist, no no we need to make you afraid of him! We need you to believe that only “freeloaders” vote for him and “real taxpayers” will be hurt by him!
This is not specific to this post but can we please not hype the guy up too much before we see what he actually does when in office? From all the news coverage I’m getting a ‘He is the Messiah! We are rescued!’ vibe. He may still bend the knee to the rich once he has power.
It’s also just a mayor. Sure mayor of NYC but it’s barely influential.
Fuck off with your negativity
We can judge him in his role as a mayor. Maybe he will get into a more powerful position later. He wouldn’t be the first.
I think it’s because its funny to see the far-right seethe
I’ll bet Kathy Wilde doesnt pay taxes. Also, that job description says “oligarch enabler”.
In a late 2020 interview, she described herself as “the lone defender of the billionaires at this point”.[1] Pro Publica reported in 2018 that Wylde’s salary exceeded $1.1 million, which would make her among the highest paid non-profit executives in the State of New York.[2]
Jesus fucking christ.
J’aime les plumbers verdes
Actually unreadable with the size thing and bloat
We’re the taxpayers that want “free” health care while simultaneously paying taxes. The Right somehow thinks we’re too stupid to know we pay taxes that makes these things happen. Heck…we want people to have nice things.
Meanwhile the Right doesn’t want to pay taxes yet somehow expects to get social services like paved roads or safe drinking water. I’d mention schools or health care but the republicans clearly DGAF about those things.
the scariest part about tax the millionaires policies for millionaires is that we did it in massachusetts and the outcome was that it worked and raised billions for the state
millionaires? you mean taxnonpayers?
This is very Boomers thinking everyone is still a 16 year old Millennial.
Boomer brains stuck in 1998, and it shows.
Higher Income people actually prefer the Socialist lmfao
Its somehow the poor people that get gaslighted into voting for conservatism
Ironic
I imagine the difference in the cost of living between NYC and upstate New York compensates for that? Median income alone isn’t a super useful metric
Upstate NYers can’t vote for mayor of NYC
Fuck I’m so dumb lmao
I think you’re a little confused.
NYC = New York City
This is a Mayoral Primary Election. Every voter here is a resident of New York City
Mayor = Leader of the Executive Branch of a city.
For NY State, the Leader of the Executive Branch would be called the Governor
Um, good?
imho that’s what connects all the right, from finance bros to masculinists to racists : they’re terrified. Of change, of difference. Of others. They’re deathly afraid and it explains every action they take, every word they say.
It’s worse than that. I’m affraid of these things sometimes too. They are affraid of being affraid. They can’t handle it, they can’t admit it and they do everything ti disguise it. It’s a very primal emotion
I appreciate that they say that employers don’t pay taxes.
I am tired of the boomer narrative of that it’s always those “young people” ruining everything. Oldest millennials are now in their mid-40’s. Or even worse, the youngest gen-z people are almost 18 now. These people have been paying their taxes for years on end now.
The only terrified people in this scenario are the literal parasites who don’t pay anything, through loopholes and theft
Yep it is so stupid everyone blaming the boomers when they are no longer the largest voting block. But millennials are, also nobody wants to admit young people are stupid also.
OK, boomer
These comments are a shitshow. It has become not only acceptable, but the norm, to counter common sense argument with “your mom”.
Idiocracy was supposed to be a satire, we were supposed to be smart and educated, the kind of people that can’t be easily fooled. Every day we return to monke a bit more.
No, boomers are responsible for the mess of crap we’ve found ourselves in. That’s why people blame them for it. They voted for “i got mine, and pulled the ladders up that helped them build their wealth and education”. That’s why we blame them for shit still.
I’m so sick of this divisive generation claptrap.
Well, its obviously not my generation at fault. /s
The problem is that wealth inequality in the USA has an age component.
Boomers are far wealthier than previous generations at their equivalent age as a percentage of national wealth. They are also incredibly sensitive to taxes as their retirement depends on managing wealth.
In contrast, Gen X and millennials are poorer than Boomers at their equivalent age and mainly contribute to the economy with their labor.
It isn’t a perfect divide, but there is a wealth divide that represents itself somewhat as a generational divide.
If gen Z/A/Millennials had the same opportunities as the Boomers did they would do exactly the same.
talk to me when our president isn’t geriatric
Exactly. It’s not young vs old, black vs white, left vs right, etc. The ONLY enemy are the WEALTHY, and we will never have peace in this nation and this world until we force the Sociopathic Oligarchs and the Transnational Corporations to serve our people, our nation, and the world, and not just themselves.
What’s interesting is that some people read this and think it means “bigotry isn’t a problem anymore”, instead of “the rich use bigotry to control the masses”. You have to address bigotry as well as the economic issues.
The issue now though is that none of the politicians, talking heads, radical fascist right wing influences are boomers. Some are X, most are Millennials. This could have been turned around according to those who insisted that “all this will.die off with the Boomers!” for the past 20 years but NO, we became even MORE radically fascist and racist.
The generation divide is silly because it isnt fucking true…not int the least.
No, its the boomers still. They created the news networks like Fox News, turned the internet into the cess pool that it is, and drove all of the propaganda that has turned millennial and gen X people into frothing right-wing nut jobs. Maybe in ten years, we can stop saying its the boomers. But they have single handedly been responsible for all of the shit we find ourselves in, the housing bubbles, the student loan crisis, everything. I’ll stop saying its the boomers when its no longer a problem of their generations making.
And when younger generations continue the same program?
Absolving them of responsibility is highly irresponsible.
You wanna know who to actually blame?:
Boomers were responsible for Reagan and Citizens United, you could maybe blame Gen X for Bush and Trump but definitely can’t blame Millennials on that.
In fact, Millennials were even more progressive aligned than Gen Z in the last election, with a -16 point shift between Biden and Harris. A lot of outlets are reporting a large Gen Z specific move to the right as they added 8 Million more voters to the pool in 2024, although take that claim with a grain of salt because the only data I could find on it was the 18-44 age group.
[Gen-Z] the generation loosely being defined as people born around 1997 to 2012.
nah it terrifies tax dodgers and leeches of society
