A Muslim voted in to run New York City and we also have a felon running our country.

[Green_Mountain]

Originally Posted by fd-guy

One would almost think you're talking about Appalachia.

You’re taking a shot at Appalachia, drawing a parallel to a cultural norm of forced marriage at a really young age and very high levels of welfare.

While I don’t agree with your observation let’s pretend it’s true.

And your solution is to encourage more Muslim and Somali immigration that we have factually established these are their norms at an extremely high level?

This helps America how?

Infinite Muslims to NYC to support Mamdani? Your lifelong New Yorkers were not the voters that got Mamdani elected, the ones with strong international ties did. Import the voters that will vote for you.

[Green_Mountain]

Racist Mamdani strikes again at his April 6 press conference.

Mamdani's property tax plan is racist as it explicitly targets "richer and whiter neighborhoods" for higher taxes to relieve "outer borough" homeowners, while citing racial wealth gaps (white $200k+ vs. Black $20k) as justification.

This uses race as a criterion for who pays more, violating color-blind equal protection under the law and treating citizens as racial groups rather than individuals. Tax burdens should be based on property value and services—not skin color or demographic statistics.

He’s gonna get the judicial smack down.

[jayzee43]

Originally Posted by Green_Mountain

Racist Mamdani strikes again at his April 6 press conference.

Mamdani's property tax plan is racist as it explicitly targets "richer and whiter neighborhoods" for higher taxes to relieve "outer borough" homeowners, while citing racial wealth gaps (white $200k+ vs. Black $20k) as justification.

This uses race as a criterion for who pays more, violating color-blind equal protection under the law and treating citizens as racial groups rather than individuals. Tax burdens should be based on property value and services—not skin color or demographic statistics.

He’s gonna get the judicial smack down.

Utter bullshit. He ran on higher taxes for richer people and was duly elected to levy those taxes. Being white has nothing to do with it.

But hey, nice try.

[Green_Mountain]

The batter swings and misses.

You are wrong and Mamdani is still a racist.

A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed alleging racial discrimination in connection with his proposed property tax reforms. Lang v. Mamdani (Case No. 1:2025cv09144 in some references).

The suit accuses Mamdani of intentional racial discrimination by advocating higher property taxes on "richer and whiter neighborhoods" to shift the burden away from outer-borough homeowners and fund social programs. It cites Mamdani's campaign statements and platform, arguing this violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.

Case is still scheduled to move forward.

[jayzee43]

Lol. You're quoting the language of the lawsuit as if it's gospel. That's not how lawsuits that haven't been settled yet work. The fact that the "richer" people he's taxing higher also happen to be white has nothing to do with it.

But hey, nice try.

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by jayzee43

Lol. You're quoting the language of the lawsuit as if it's gospel. That's not how lawsuits that haven't been settled yet work. The fact that the "richer" people he's taxing higher also happen to be white has nothing to do with it.

But hey, nice try.

Not even a good try. Straight up deflection from the only color that matters.

GREEN.

It’s a tax on the wealthy not the white and wealthy. Taxes by their very nature are color blind.

[jayzee43]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Not even a good try. Straight up deflection from the only color that matters.

GREEN.

It’s a tax on the wealthy not the white and wealthy. Taxes by their very nature are color blind.

Yep. But don't let pesky little things like facts get in the way of a good MAGA fever dream.

[Green_Mountain]

Mamdani explicitly proposed shifting the property tax burden from outer borough homeowners to "more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods." Those are his EXACT word, not anybody else’s.

His framing of tax policy around the racial composition of neighborhoods—rather than purely income, property value, or individual circumstances—he treated "whiter" as a proxy for undeserved privilege warranting higher burdens.

This reduces people to their skin color for punitive taxation, which is the definition of racism: judging and penalizing individuals based on race. Mamdani doubled down on the language despite criticism, calling it merely "describing" reality.

Policies that explicitly target or exempt groups by race violate color-blind principles and equal protection under the law.

Please treat people fairly and stop being a useful idiot if you are Dem. It’s disgusting behavior.

[Jacuzzme]

So the dude is racist AF, everyone knew that going in. His making racist policy should be a surprise to no one.

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by Green_Mountain

Mamdani explicitly proposed shifting the property tax burden from outer borough homeowners to "more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods." Those are his EXACT word, not anybody else’s.

Policies that explicitly target or exempt groups by race violate color-blind principles and equal protection under the law.

Please treat people fairly and stop being a useful idiot if you are Dem. It’s disgusting behavior.

Policies that target or exempt groups based on their income is perfectly legal if not downright reasonable.

Stop playing the victim card. It’s not a good look to complain about taxes when you have all the money.

[jayzee43]

Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

So the dude is racist AF, everyone knew that going in. His making racist policy should be a surprise to no one.

I know. trump let everyone know who he was, and dipshits everywhere still voted for him.

This country is an embarrassment to the world.

[Green_Mountain]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Policies that target or exempt groups based on their income is perfectly legal if not downright reasonable.

Stop playing the victim card. It’s not a good look to complain about taxes when you have all the money.

Mamdani introduced race into the discussion and we all know why.

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by Green_Mountain

Mamdani introduced race into the discussion and we all know why.

The statement he made could be interpreted as being racist. The policy is not.

The sticking point of course is that white people have much more of the available funds because our country’s policies in the past allowed white European people to accumulate more wealth than people of color.

You may not like it or want to admit it but historical racism has benefited white communities much more than black communities. Pointing that out is not racist. It’s just the truth.

[Green_Mountain]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

The statement he made could be interpreted as being racist. The policy is not.

The sticking point of course is that white people have much more of the available funds because our country’s policies in the past allowed white European people to accumulate more wealth than people of color.

You may not like it or want to admit it but historical racism has benefited white communities much more than black communities. Pointing that out is not racist. It’s just the truth.

Why does LeBron James make more money than you or I? He has more talent and I’m ok with that.

Equal outcomes, is nothing more than taking what isn’t yours. It’s blaming your lack of talent, lack of work ethic and poor financial decisions on a system and not yourself.

It’s that same system that allows you to do better for yourself.

Your Mamdani/socialist fetish wants to squash all of that through asset reallocation, rewarding poor performers and penalizing success.

It’s never worked any where. Cuba, Venezuela, etc.

It all leads to collapse but the knuckleheads on the left are now hell bent on continuing.

[Salty Again]

... That wise Australian soothe-sayer named Confushiss surely got
a rather apt saying:

... "You get the government that you deserve."

... Yes, quite so... And the New Yorkers surely deserve Mamdani.

#### Salty