Zohran Mamdani on being mayor of Wall Street and democratic socialists

""I would be the mayor of this entire city," Mamdani said. "And that means ensuring that the wealth that we generate in this city is also wealth that every single New Yorker can actually feel in their pockets. Because what we have today is a system that has generated the most wealth in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, where one in four of our neighbors are living in poverty. That's unacceptable.""

""Because right now, all of them are being pushed out of this city by corporate greed, by private equity, and by a politics that refuses to fight for them," he said."

Zohran Mamdani is a 33-year-old democratic socialist and frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race. Mamdani presents a platform to serve all New Yorkers, aiming to ensure city-generated wealth reaches residents' pockets and to address poverty. Mamdani emphasizes support for small business owners and workers in Queens who face displacement attributed to corporate practices and private equity. The platform includes a proposed 2% income tax on those earning more than $1 million and a plan to raise corporate taxes to 11.5% to fund public transportation and universal childcare. Some political leaders express resistance to the tax proposals.

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