The progressive candidate of the mayor of New York Mamdani is gaining ground with the promises of free services

Selli A list of free programs and services during his campaign for the mayor of New York, the socialist Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has propelled among the best candidates, even threatening the former New York governor very favored Andrew Cuomo.

Mamdani’s campaign has won an important traction in the New York town hall race. Democratic primary elections are on Tuesday, but the results are not expected this evening due to the voting system for choosing the city complicating the vote and the counting of votes.

Currently assembly of New York State, Mamdani has acquired a certain recognition by renowned figures such as Senator Bernie Sanders, I-vt., And representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. However, he also acquired a full-fledged notoriety due to a platform full of free services he promised to New York residents.

Mamdani said that he would finance his promised services by increasing $ 10 billion in city income by increasing corporate taxes and 1% richest by 1%.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), candidate for the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT. (David Dee Delgado / Getty Images; Brendan McDermid / Reuters; Craig Ruttle / AP Photo)

A look via the Mamdani platform, available on the website of its campaign, is up to its socialist affiliation and Sanders and the recommendations of Ocasio-Cortez.

He promised to immediately freeze the prices of rents for more than 2 million New Yorkers living in stabilized rent apartments, to implement free public transport, to create a network of grocery stores belonging to the city which are “focused on the maintenance of low prices, without enjoying” and institute a free universal daycare for children from 6 weeks to 5 years.

He also promised to create a New York Community Security Department which, according to him, will deploy awareness workers in 100 metro stations, to expand armed violence prevention programs and increase the financing of “violence prevention programs” by 800%.

Mamdani also undertook to defend a law to increase the minimum wage in New York to $ 30 per hour by 2030.

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Another major principle of the Mamdani platform is the “city of Trump” in New York. His website indicates that the application of the immigration law of President Donald Trump, the prices and other policies “tear the fabric of New York”. The Mamdani website stipulates that it will strengthen the city of the city of the city by cutting the ice of all the city’s facilities and by ending any cooperation with the agency as well as increasing legal support for immigrants and protecting their personal data.

Its website also indicates that, as mayor, Mamdani will make New York a city of the LGBTQ + sanctuary and will protect “reproductive rights”.

So what does the bill look like for all of this?

According to Politico report This week, Mamdani’s campaign estimates that the provision of universal childcare services would cost between $ 5 and $ 7 billion, its Community Security Ministry would cost new expenditure up to $ 450 million, and food stores managed by the city would still cost $ 60 million.

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Mamdani also offers the city’s $ 30 billion budget to carry out its housing program. Meanwhile, free buses are expected to cost MTA around $ 900 million a year in annual income.

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Where will additional money come from? The Mamdani website says that it plans to increase the tax rate of companies to 11.5%, which, according to him, will report an additional $ 5 billion. He plans to set a stable tax of 2% on those who earn more than a million dollars a year, which, he said, will report additional dollars per year of taxes. He also declared that he would hire more tax listeners, put an end to contracts without vehicles and retract the fine perception of “corrupt owners” to raise an additional $ 1 billion.

Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.