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Created: 2025-07-25 18:25:41 UTC

Mamdani’s fare-free bus fantasy isn’t progressive—it’s fiscal arson. Kansas City’s collapse after five years proves this socialist pipe dream incinerates budgets without improving service. The MTA’s $650M annual loss would gut an already bleeding system—ridership’s down, deficits up, and Mamdani’s answer is to torch revenue streams? Classic DSA math: promise utopia, deliver bankruptcy.

Cuomo built infrastructure; Mamdani peddles performative poverty. Chile’s Allende-era transit meltdown should’ve been lesson enough.

NYC can’t afford his delusions—working-class riders need reliable buses, not hollow slogans that leave them stranded when the money runs dry.


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