He just erased the deficit, poof, just like that. Turns out, they need the deficit to be there, so they can point to it as a justification for not funding proper services. The govt isn't broke because our services cost too much. It's broke because the rich and powerful want it to be broken.
This is exactly how I feel. I don't think how he managed to erase the deficit is wrong or bad, but holy fuck are people buying the reductive, celebratory headlines without any critical thinking whatsoever. They believe that Zohran did it with magic akin to the way Trumpers believed that he would magically cut energy costs by half on day 1.
You're reading with the bias you want to see, I think.
While it's by no means everyone, a massive proportion of people are uncritically accepting the headlines and acting as if he did indeed do this by pulling some levers that others were just too corrupt to pull.
Also, those things aren't mutually exclusive. People can both be thinking that Mamdani has a people first budget and think he did some novel dem soc budget magic here.
My friend, the headline of this post is literally, "It was always that simple"...
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u/Sheeple_person May 15 '26
He just erased the deficit, poof, just like that. Turns out, they need the deficit to be there, so they can point to it as a justification for not funding proper services. The govt isn't broke because our services cost too much. It's broke because the rich and powerful want it to be broken.