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28.01.26 - 23:54
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Mamdani Pressures Hochul To Jack Up Taxes On Rich Amid NYC Budget Woes (ZeroHedge)
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Mamdani Pressures Hochul To Jack Up Taxes On Rich Amid NYC Budget Woes
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has lots of ideas - virtually all of which require extracting more money from taxpayers, as socialists tend to do.
To accomplish this, he's gonna need some help - and has been leaning on Gov. Kathy Hochul to hike taxes on the state's richest residents and corporations in the hopes of raising billions more to send to the Big Apple to plug mounting budget holes, Bloomberg reports.
Mamdani, the newly-sworn in democratic socialist, is arguing additional money from the state is necessary because the city faces a fiscal “crisis” created by his predecessor Eric Adams and by a push from former Governor Andrew Cuomo to shift costs from the state onto the city. Both Cuomo and Adams ran against Mamdani in last year's mayoral election.
At present, NYC is looking at a $12.6 billion budget gap, in what Mamdani recognized as the largest deficit since the 2008 recession. On Wednesday, he ...
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28.01.26 - 21:12
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Trump Responds To Omar Attack: ′She Probably Had Herself Sprayed′ (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Responds To Omar Attack: 'She Probably Had Herself Sprayed'
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was assaulted Tuesday evening during a town hall event in North Minneapolis. Video of the incident shows a disheveled man spraying her with apple cider vinegar from a syringe (there was a polymarket for that). The spraying happened as she was calling for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) assaulted during town hall meeting: "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand; we are Minnesota strong and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." pic.twitter.com/Ud5l3yP4lQ
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 28, 2026
“During her town hall, an agitator tried to attack the Congresswoman by spraying an unknown substance with a syringe,” Omar's office said in a statement. “Security and the Minneapolis Police Department quickly apprehended the individual. He is now in custody. The Congresswoman is okay. S...
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28.01.26 - 19:00
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Can Apple Shake Off AI Struggles? (Zacks)
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We'll undoubtedly hear a lot about the Alphabet collaboration during the upcoming earnings call, especially given the current sentiment surrounding Apple's AI ventures....
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