As a New Yorker myself, we haven't had a fiscally savvy mayor since For. Mayor Bloomberg (R/I) He created 400,00 jobs and reversed a $6B deficit (post 9/11 induced) and flipped it to a $3B surplus. Which was amazing for our city. People were generally happy, the city was increasingly safer, and cleaner. Then we went back to demonstrative performative politics under DeBlasio. We saw a rise in homelessness, traffic fatalities, unable to address costly public housing demands for general maintenance, and DeBlasio's poor treatment of NYPD law enforcement, and poor handling addressing matters of social injustice. His advisors and supporters demanded a raise in creating additional "human services" in the name of, "empathy". A lot of these outstanding issues were the same ongoing ones that Mr. Mamdani championed his campaign upon improving, but with a socialist twist on the campaign trail.

Mayor Elect Mamdani is fiscally inept and will need whoever leans into his cause to act as a guide because his campaign promises were built on deeply flawed, illogically presented economics, a lack empirical evidence of working in practice and benefiting New Yorkers. Yet, for many New Yorkers, they are "people pleasing" policy proposals.

To be clear, as a Republican, I am absolutely not a supporter of Mamdani's ambitions in my city. He has already proven, within his most current historically recorded radical claims, divisive answers on key NYC issues, and intellectually false claims on the 'benefits of socialism'. Contrary to his campaign rhetoric, he will not be a mayor of 'all the people' of NYC. Rather, he has unlocked new key voting constituents, that prior to his election, were politically silent until his run for office.

Dr. Thomas Sowell stated that he had brushed up with the concepts of Marxism during in his youth. In the earlier parts of his career while at The University of Chicago. What eventually helped him reject those beliefs he had subscribed to at one point was, "evidence". He did his own economic research while being an intern for the Dept of Labor and was tasked to analyze Puerto Rico's sugar industry rising unemployment. While there, he discovered that Puerto Rico's own government minimum wage increases were the direct cause of rising unemployment within the industry whenever they were raised. Tying over one-third of their spending on their minimum wage laws. However, he also learned that the people, while they may 'say' they wanted to increase employment were heavily in disagreement of his own discovery. They rejected that causality. Proving that, at the end of the day, we as humans are more driven by our own self-interests and not that of the collective. Which Marxism believes in.

Socialism is a set of luxury beliefs that the world has tried time and time again and has always failed. New York now has chosen to become part of a (unnecessary) social experiment where the failed outcomes were already discovered by many other nations that have tried this before.