Billionaire Bill Ackman and his rich friends want someone, anyone, to bring down Zohran Mamdani. Their pitch: take our money, it won’t be much time and energy, and maybe you’ll get famous enough to use the campaign as a stepping stone to higher office.
  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    because rich people are going to flee New York and the city will become “economically unviable.”

    Mamdani addressed this on an interview with the local ABC affiliate: rich people are only a quarter as likely to move out of NYC than regular folk, and when they do move out it tends to be to other high-tax areas. See, turns out rich people like things like the Met Opera and eating at Le Bernardin that you can’t get in low-tax flyover country.