At a press conference in the Bronx, Mamdani listed some of the onerous policies getting the axe. Bodega owners will no longer need a separate license to sell the same products outside the store – like fruit and flowers – as inside. Restaurants will no longer need a “superfluous” frozen dessert permit to sell ice-cream on top of the permit already required to sell food. Barber shops will no longer have to renew their permit every year, instead doing so every three years. Street fair vendor permit fees will be reduced, restaurant inspections will be sped up, and equipment registration fees will be eliminated for a year.
A corresponding executive order signed by Mamdani on Monday will also expand the NYC Best program, assigning each of the city’s 180,000 small businesses – which employ an estimated 1 million people – a case worker to help owners navigate the Big Apple’s sometimes byzantine bureaucracy.
I should ask the local pizza shop owner about this. He was pretty anti zohran. He said it’s because he grew up in a post Soviet country, and believed socialism would turn into poverty for all.
They always confuse socialism with harsh authoritarian dictatorships, no doubt reinforced by right wing rhetoric. It’s ironic that people flee these crushing governments only to come to the US and vote for right wing authoritarian fascism. Just proves they haven’t a clue about socialist policy and the ability to differentiate between that and horrible leaders.
reminder for the billionth time that east germans vote afd
Because a certain group of certain countries made the main comparison axis “capitalism - communism” instead of “totalitarianism - freedom”. I wonder why.
We see something similar with Cuban immigrants to the US.
I was going to add that it’s also reinforced by modern day communist dictatorships but then I remembered those are also right wing.
Propaganda is powerful.
Especially on those who cannot think critically. At all.
Well, nobody is immune to propaganda. Not you, not me.
I always try to view a subject as if I were an uninvolved third party, look for objective facts, and because of it I’m always getting into fights with excited revolutionaries who don’t care if post is true or not before using it as support to reinforce their worldview.