The Fantasy of “Free” You’ve got Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, trying to hijack the economic engine of the United States—New York City—and convert it into a Soviet-style museum piece. He’s promising “free” public transportation, “free” groceries via state-run stores, and rent freezes so tight they’d make a North Korean landlord blush. But here’s the catch—nothing is free. Every cent Mamdani wants to give away is a cent taken at gunpoint from someone else. That’s how government works: coercion disguised as compassion. Bessent’s Warning: A Rare Moment of Government Sanity Scott Bessent—former Wall Street player turned Treasury Secretary—finally said what most bureaucrats are too spineless to admit: if Mamdani implements his socialist manifesto, NYC’s finances will nosedive, and the…
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