Will the next NY Mayor be a socialist? JT and John talk about it.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Program director John Mount says with us this morning, Good morning, sir,
it's good to see you again.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, it's always good to be here, Jose.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
I mean when I walk in and you're here bright
and early this time of day, and I see your
car parked out front with the top down, I might
add nice mustang.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
By the way, it's a beautiful, beautiful week for top.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Right right, you and I were talking about this crazy
New York mayor oll Race. I'm not even sure there's
a Republican candidate that is still in New York.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I mean they all moved away. J They went to Florida.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I mean, they just got so frustrated with New York.
And if this Mandonna guy wins, I mean, look out, businesses.
He wants to raise the business tax from a seven
five to up to eleven five percent. Eleven point five percent,
that's it. Business. Oh really, okay, we'll see you.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Millionaires and billionaires. JT got to pay their fair share.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Lots of people in Alabama expect them to move here. Governor.
I bey on the phone with them already, Come on in,
we love you.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Bring your most taxes.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yes, we'll keep it low. So the debate, boy, things
are crazy in the North right now, this whole thing
in Virginia with the governor's race there, but the mayoral race.
Back to that, Curtis Leewah is the what do they
call the red barons or the guys that had the
red hats on Guardian Angels. Yeah, he's the Republican candidate

(01:14):
doesn't have a shot. This what's crazy is and you
said it when you look at Cuomo being the best.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Pick, that's a really sad thing.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's awful. I mean, he's just a horrible governor. He left,
you know, all taint it in a mess and in
the mud.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
But he actually makes sense that this debate compared to
Man Donnie.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
No doubt about it. And things got a little heated
last night. During this debate, Curtis Sleewah says, Jews don't
trust Man Donnie to watch out for him.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
And your favorite mayor, Bill Deblasio in twenty nineteen abandoned
the Jews again when they were being attacked in Williamsburg
and clob Park and Crownheights and I had to bring
the Guardian Angels him for thirty days night, missus, Jews
don't trust that you be there for them. When they
are victims of anti Semitic attacks.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, I gotta agree with him that. I mean, he's
already been out there pro Palestinian. He's part of that
whole movement, you know, and he kind of backed off
of it the last night a little bit, but really
drives me kind of crazy. And they're going to find
out socialism doesn't work anywhere. Show me a case in
point in recent history, any history where socialist government prospered

(02:21):
for the people.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
It works great to be run out of other people's money, exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
And it came up last night because he wants to
do a lot of that, and it's going to cost
a lot of money. The numbers do not add up.
But he tries to explain how he's going to pay
for his agenda.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Look, a lot of people have called even my campaign
a non starter when we first began, and now I
stand before you proud to be the Democratic nominee who
got the most votes in city primary history. And I
believe we will see the same thing with our push
to ensure that we are taxing the wealthiest and the
most profitable corporations the fair amount that they should pay. Look,
I've said very clearly making buses fast and free costs

(02:57):
about seven hundred million dollars a year. Universal childcare reality
costs about five or six billion dollars a year. If
you raise the state's top corporate tax straight to match
that of New Jersey, you'd be raising five billion in
and of itself.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
And by the way, it's it would be great, much
greater than New Jersey, and New Jersey is an example
of how to do things right.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
You know. Yeah, yeah, he can't pay for it. It's
not a reality. And if he, if he raises taxes
like that, nobody's gonna want to hear that. Let's make
a fifty just the wealthiest people.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
That never works.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
They got to pay their fair share fair rhymes with share.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Therefore, it's it's not going to happen. So if he
is elected, it's disaster time for New York City and
they will lose businesses in droves, that's for sure. We're
going to be checking in with Ken Belkan, our attorney
friend in New York, uh On Mundani, and a couple
of other things happening up there too. It's disaster city
right now.