Mamdani says billionaires shouldn’t exist, touts economic agenda
The alleged democratic candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani said he did not think that billionaires should exist during a big interview on Sunday on NBC “Meet The Press”.
“I do not think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of this inequality,” he told interviewer Kristen Welker. “In the end, what we need is equality in our city and in our state and through our country.”
Freshly out of his superb defeat of former governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary mayor, Mamdani attributed his victory to his economic program, in which he presented various plans to reduce the notoriously high cost of life.
“What we have seen is that it is a city that must be affordable for the people who build it every day,” said Mamdani. “We focus exactly on this.”
Mamdani’s leftist proposals and the identification open as a democratic socialist attracted the skepticism of several members of the establishment of the Democratic Party. The majority leader of senator Chuck Schumer and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room, both New York, refused to immediately approve Mamdani to the mayor’s general elections.
“This [primary] is an election that went against a large part of the analysis that had been told about our party and where we had to go to, “said Mamdani in the interview.” And finally, what we show is that by putting the workers first, returning to the roots of the Democratic Party, we have in fact a path of this moment when we are faced with authoritarianism in Washington, DC “
The first Mamdani challenger in the November elections should be the mayor Eric Adams, who presents himself as independent. Mamdani did not waste time criticizing the holder in Sunday’s interview, noting that Adams administration has increased rents in New York stabilized housing of 9% over three years.
“The median household income of these tenants is $ 60,000 per year,” said Mamdani. “The owners of these units saw their profits increase by 12%. It’s time to release New Yorkers from the working class. ”
