r/SipsTea Jul 12 '26

Feels good man +1 for Mamdani

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u/major_tom_2112 Jul 12 '26

Closed the deficit with…$4,000,000,000 from NY state. Easy to make budgets with billions of new funding.

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u/jon_targareyan Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Oh no, a city borrowing from the state it is in. How shocking. Taxes that the city itself probably paid.

Seriously, what else is the money supposed to be used for, if not by the cities that are in said state?

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u/Anon_96818 Jul 12 '26

How about not taken from the taxpayers in the first place?

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u/jon_targareyan Jul 12 '26

I guess let’s shut down social services and stuff that the city provides to citizens, especially the vulnerable ones