I'm moving to New York!

[Littletoo]

I30.00 minimum wage, free bus rides, free child care, rent freeze for five years (if I can figure out whom I have to sleep with to get a rent-controlled apartment). What am I doing down heah in TEXAS, for Christ’s sake?

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Plus there's fewer homos in NYC.

 

[Lazaran]

I30.00 minimum wage, free bus rides, free child care, rent freeze for five years (if I can figure out whom I have to sleep with to get a rent-controlled apartment). What am I doing down heah in TEXAS, for Christ’s sake?

I’m guessing you can’t bear to leave your favorite breeding stud behind???



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[YDB95]

If you have any need for childcare, it means you have little kids. You would definitely rather have them attend New York public schools than Texas ones.

 

[rachaelwillguideyou]

I30.00 minimum wage, free bus rides, free child care, rent freeze for five years (if I can figure out whom I have to sleep with to get a rent-controlled apartment). What am I doing down heah in TEXAS, for Christ’s sake?

Please show us where you got this info.

 

[Olderwiserstillhorny]

Please show us where you got this info.

Welcome to the twilight zone

 

[rachaelwillguideyou]

Welcome to the twilight zone

Ha! It can feel that way.

 

[YDB95]

Please show us where you got this info.

Mamdani really has advocated for all those things (only it's $30, not "I30"). It speaks volumes that these things are being treated as a joke, too.

 

[Littletoo]

Please show us where you got this info.

Zohran's website. Surely he's going to win. Who could vote against all that?

 

[glamorilla]

The funny thing is all this talk of free bus fare. The city just cut out like half the stops in most of the burroughs. people are already pissed busses now take longer, are even more crowded and you have a longer commute if your stop got cut. I see people freaking out on a daily basis. Adding in free bus fare opening up the lines to people who plan on living on busses...not going to end well.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The funny thing is all this talk of free bus fare. The city just cut out like half the stops in most of the burroughs. people are already pissed busses now take longer, are even more crowded and you have a longer commute if your stop got cut. I see people freaking out on a daily basis. Adding in free bus fare opening up the lines to people who plan on living on busses...not going to end well.

Get your broke ass a job and buy a car.

 

[wallstreetguy]

NYC is a shithole now. I can just imagine under socialism.
Kind of looking forward to watching all the bodegas close when they open up govt stores. I want all the Asians and latinos driven out of business, just like Mamdani does.

 

[YDB95]

NYC is a shithole now. I can just imagine under socialism.
Kind of looking forward to watching all the bodegas close when they open up govt stores. I want all the Asians and latinos driven out of business, just like Mamdani does.

Funny how they always predict the sky will fall if someone even an inch to the left of center gets elected...and somehow it never, ever happens.

 

[latecomer91364]

YEAH! Move to NYC right away! Be part of the glorious socialist dream that's heading their way. It will be paradise beyond your wildest dreams.

PS: do not buy property, and don't sign a residential lease for longer than a year.

 

[wallstreetguy]

Funny how they always predict the sky will fall if someone even an inch to the left of center gets elected...and somehow it never, ever happens.

I saw NYC and Chicago descend over the years. I did not really care, since I did not live there. But I was physically in both cities and so it did affect me. They became shitholes. The Dems who live there deserve it.
Lots more people were murdered and more were victimized. Whatever. Did not affect me. I had funny stories to tell when I saw cops arresting people and crazy homeless saying they would be out in a few hours (they probably were).
You say nothing ever happens. Tell that to the families of the dead. Or not, They would kill you if you came to their homes, I am sure.

 

[Abbey_Will_Fuck]

Please show us where you got this info.

That’s a popular news source, only the people that work there know it exists

 

[Booboobear84]

Funny how they always predict the sky will fall if someone even an inch to the left of center gets elected...and somehow it never, ever happens.

Minimum wage in NYC is currently 16.50 (per google your mileage may vary). If you nearly double the labor cost of everything, what will happen to prices. Retail typically has fairly low margins so the price of everything will have to go up in order to pay the workers. Who will then be able to afford those much higher costs? We can't raise the standard of living by decree (it would be nice if we could). There is always this tension between how much a business can afford to pay workers and what wage is realistic to live on. A truth that mostly gets ignored is that a lot of minimum wage workers are either High school/college students (who staffs most mall stores), or people getting their first jobs.

It's a hard problem, with no simple answers. When someone offers a simple answer look on it with deep suspicion. Most people are good and care about others. If there were a simple answer, it would have been implemented already.

 

[SebastianHolt]

I30.00 minimum wage, free bus rides, free child care, rent freeze for five years (if I can figure out whom I have to sleep with to get a rent-controlled apartment). What am I doing down heah in TEXAS, for Christ’s sake?

who will pay for all that?????

 

[YDB95]

Minimum wage in NYC is currently 16.50 (per google your mileage may vary). If you nearly double the labor cost of everything, what will happen to prices.

Raising the minimum wage will not "nearly double the labor cost of everything".

 

[Booboobear84]

Raising the minimum wage will not "nearly double the labor cost of everything".

I admit simplifying, however for good or ill most retail jobs are at minimum wage. nearly doubling the minimum wage will nearly double the labor costs of those stores. That will not double the cost of the item but will cause either a significant rise of prices, to cover those costs, or cause the stores to close because the consumers will not pay the prices.

I'm a small business accountant, I've seen the books of small retailers. One or the other will occur (pizza places will probably fine, hard work but they have pretty nice margins in the grand scheme of retail, but their costs will still cause significant price rises).

 

[Hel_Books]

I30.00 minimum wage, free bus rides, free child care, rent freeze for five years (if I can figure out whom I have to sleep with to get a rent-controlled apartment). What am I doing down heah in TEXAS, for Christ’s sake?

Texas? Dodging stray bullets, worried about the safety of your electrical grid, worried about natural disasters and FEMA gutted by Orange Julius Caesar, worried about your women dying in emergency rooms because the doctors are afraid of being thrown in jail or sued for treating them, wondering why there's a shortage of construction, meatpacking, and agricultural workers (with Spanish accents), worrying about your civil liberties, worrying about the Texas housing shortage, worrying about your children's education, and, worried about bible-thumper indoctrination.

 

[YDB95]

I admit simplifying, however for good or ill most retail jobs are at minimum wage. nearly doubling the minimum wage will nearly double the labor costs of those stores.

No it won't. The relationship you're describing is not perfectly elastic (hardly anything is), and even if it were, it wouldn't "nearly double" the costs for staff who are not on minimum wage, only for those who are.

I should probably add here that, while I support a living wage, I do not support Mamdani's proposal. I think it's too much at once. But that's no excuse for claiming it will do something it just won't do.

 

[ColtonWrites]

Massachusetts has had a $15 minimum wage for a while and the cost of stuff here seems pretty comparable to other metro areas. (I moved here from North Carolina which uses federal minimum and other than rent prices my CoL hasnt changed much.) I dont think theres as much of a direct link between wages and prices as people say.

 

[SebastianHolt]

new york smells like trash

 

[Hel_Books]

Funny how they always predict the sky will fall if someone even an inch to the left of center gets elected...and somehow it never, ever happens.

Weird. There's some notion that the "Left" is somehow nothing but Stalin.

Same as how the extremists on the other side are fond of calling everyone who disagrees Fascists or Nazis.

America has some advantages over the more "lefty" places in, say, Europe, but Americans could learn a lot about responsible government and good civil society from the Swiss or the French or the Scandinavians, like, say, not shooting someone to death for ringing the wrong doorbell.