NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani doubles down on socialist policies such as free buses, universal child

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October 15, 2025 4:45pm EDT
NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani doubles down on socialist policies such as free buses, universal childcare

By Sophia Compton FOXBusiness


New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is standing by his proposal to raise taxes on the city’s wealthiest residents and corporations to fund free buses and universal childcare.

Under Mamdani’s plan, the personal income tax rate on the city's wealthiest 1% would rise by 2 percentage points, while the corporate tax rate would increase to match New Jersey’s 11.5% rate, he told Martha MacCallum on Wednesday on Fox News' "The Story."

"I've said time and time again that I believe these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free, and I've said that the two clear ways to do so: raising personal income taxes on the top 1% by 2% and raising the corporate tax to match that of New Jersey's corporate tax of 11.5%," Mamdani said. "Now, if there are other ways to raise this money to fund this agenda, the most important thing is that we fund the agenda."

He said he was "thankful" to have the support of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, as well as the fact that she highlighted their shared commitment to universal childcare for New Yorkers.

"Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if he had $959 million, he'd give it to Elon Musk in tax credits because that's exactly what he did," Mamdani said, in response to a question about how he would pay for his proposed programs if Governor Hochul refuses to raise taxes. "And I bring that up to you to say that it's often a question of whether you have the willingness to spend that money to benefit working-class people, not where that money is in the first place."

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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nyc-mayoral-candidate-mamdani-doubles-down-socialist-policies-free-buses-universal-childcare

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Zohran Mamdani says NYC should uphold ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu if he visits city
Mamdani refused to answer if he thinks NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch would allow him to arrest Netanyahu in the city
By Jasmine Baehr Fox News
Published October 15, 2025 5:46pm EDT

New York City Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said the city should honor the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit the city.

"I’ve said that this is a city that believes international law, and this is a city that wants to uplift and uphold those beliefs," Mamdani told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on "The Story" on Wednesday.

MacCallum then challenged Mamdani, saying, "The United States doesn't stand by the International Criminal Court."

Mamdani acknowledged that the U.S. has not signed the treaty for the International Criminal Court.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-says-nyc-should-uphold-icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu-he-visits-city

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

No such thing as free. People should know better.

[andy58-in-nh]

[DefiantMassRINO]

Stuff is free when you steal it.

[Hoodat]

But will he make the trains run on time?

[Fishrrman]

Looking at the latest Fox poll, zombie-mammi seems to be runnin' away with it:
(touching 52% now...)

[Smokin Joe]

Keep in mind that 36% of NYC's population is foreign born.

[mountaineer]

Yiatin Chu
@ycinnewyork
“Mr. Mamdani said he opposed mayoral control of the New York City school system, …, but he declined to explain how he would change it.”
Mamdani is clueless about NYC education and worse, he’s disinterested. The UFT found another puppet.
From nytimes.com
7:09 AM · Oct 17, 2025

Karol Markowicz
@karol
This is Mamdani on every issue "I will do this but I won't explain how" and his voters don't care. It's wild.
7:11 AM · Oct 17, 2025

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Looking at the latest Fox poll, zombie-mammi seems to be runnin' away with it:
(touching 52% now...)

A sub-majority plurality should create an automatic runoff election imo. That's if we were smart.

[mountaineer]

No surprise: Imami Commie Mamdani fundraising with terrorists.

Dana Loesch
@DLoesch
Someone tell @AndrewCMcCarthy that the unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing case he prosecuted is now fundraising with the Democrats's candidate for NYC mayor.
10:16 PM · Oct 17, 2025

Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah.

9:05 PM · Oct 17, 2025

[mountaineer]

More on Mamdani's BFF Siraj:

Drew Pavlou
@DrewPavlou

A little about Siraj Wahhaj! 
- Three of his children have been charged with terrorism offences

- Siraj Wahhaj himself was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing. 

- Siraj Wahhaj testified in defence of the ''Blind Sheikh'' Omar Abdel-Rahman at his trial over the 1993 WTC bombing. He called the Sheik a ''respected scholar,'' also calling him ''bold, as a strong preacher of Islam.'' 

Abdel-Rahman had previously issued a fatwa in the US that declared it lawful to rob banks and kill Jews in the US. His sermons condemned Americans as the "descendants of apes and pigs'' and called on Muslims to assail the West, ''kill them on the sea, air, or land.'' 

- In November of 1991, Siraj Wahhaj advocated the establishment of an Islamic State in the U.S.: ''Where ever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason- for one reason only – to establish Allah's deen.'' 

- In the same lecture, Siraj Wahhaj encouraged Muslims in the US to use politics ''as a weapon ... in the cause of Islam." 

- Siraj Wahhaj has said that he believes that the proper penalty for adultery should be stoning to death. 

- Siraj Wahhaj openly declares that he wants to abolish democracy in favour of Islamic law: ''Islam is better than democracy. Allah will cause Islam to prevail over every kind of system.''
3:58 AM · Oct 18, 2025

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Mamdani’s terror-linked imam pal urged ‘jihad’ on NYC with army of 10,000 men
Story by Rich Calder • 12h

The terror-linked Brooklyn imam who palled around in a photo opp this week with socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani once urged “jihad” on the Big Apple.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders, delivered his radical message during a sermon in the early 2000s, telling followers to participate in gun-free jihad and “march through the city of New York,” according to a foreign intelligence assessment obtained Saturday by The Post.

“I pray one day Allah will bless us to raise an army, and I’m serious about this,” he said during the sermon, which was first reported by Islamist Watch and cited in the intelligence report.
 

“We were very close, recently. We had made intention to raise an army of 10,000 men in New York City.”

“Muslim men to go fight in the way of subhanahu wa ta’ala,” added the Imam, using a using a phrase that roughly translates to “glory be to Allah.”

“800,000 Muslims in New York City,” he said. “Can you imagine, if 800,000 Muslims decide to march every day?”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mamdani-s-terror-linked-imam-pal-urged-jihad-on-nyc-with-army-of-10-000-men/ar-AA1OJvLn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68f4d8d1b9444434a71f8758d89f2742&ei=11