{"id":24528,"date":"2026-05-19T03:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/mamdani-tries-dunking-on-reagan-ends-up-soaking-wet\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:27:20","slug":"mamdani-tries-dunking-on-reagan-ends-up-soaking-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/mamdani-tries-dunking-on-reagan-ends-up-soaking-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Tries Dunking On Reagan, Ends Up Soaking Wet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Leave it to New York rookie socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani to lecture Americans on hardship while taking aim at one of the most popular and economically successful presidents in history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">During a press conference on Monday, Mamdani mockingly referenced former President Ronald Reagan\u2019s iconic 1986 quip: \u201cThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are \u2018I\u2019m from the government and I\u2019m here to help.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Mamdani, thinking himself a master of rhetoric, countered: \u201cI think nine more terrifying words are actually \u2018I worked all day and can\u2019t feed my family.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MAMDANI: \u201cRonald Reagan\u2026famously said \u2018The nine most terrifying words in the English language are I\u2019m from the government and I\u2019m here to help\u2019\u2026I DISAGREE.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cAXqjRz9iI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/cAXqjRz9iI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/2056392177652023429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a cute line, but it\u2019s completely untethered from historical reality. Mamdani is attacking a man whose conservative policies actually rescued the American worker, all while Mamdani practices a brand of fiscal theft today that guarantees future generations will pay the price tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"3\">Let\u2019s look at the facts. When Reagan took office in 1981, the American economy was being suffocated by Carter-era \u201cstagflation\u201d \u2014 a toxic mix of double-digit inflation and high unemployment. Reagan didn\u2019t use big-government handouts; he crushed inflation from 13.5% down to 4.1%. He slashed the astronomical 21.5% prime interest rate in half, sparked a 92-month peacetime economic expansion, and oversaw the creation of over 16 million new jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"4\">Reagan\u2019s supply-side miracle didn\u2019t just help the wealthy; it lifted everyone. Real median family income rose by 12.6%, and poverty rates plummeted. Minority communities thrived, with black unemployment at a near all-time low and black-owned businesses expanding by nearly 38%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Reagan knew that the American taxpayer didn\u2019t exist to fund bureaucratic overreach. As he noted in his 1980 GOP acceptance speech, any program representing a \u201ctheft from their pocketbooks\u201d had to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"5\">Contrast that economic boom with Mamdani\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/mamdani-closes-12-billion-new-york-city-budget-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current high-wire balancing act<\/a> in New York City. Mamdani recently took a rooftop victory lap, boasting that he magically closed a $12 billion budget deficit without resorting to \u201causterity.\u201d But a look under the hood reveals that Mamdani\u2019s \u201csolution\u201d is just a massive shell game of short-term gimmicks and fiscal procrastination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"6\">To patch the hole for fiscal year 2027, Mamdani relies on roughly $2.8 billion in one-time measures. He is implementing a punitive \u201cpied-\u00e0-terre\u201d tax and clawing back unincorporated business tax credits that hit self-employed New Yorkers making as little as $142,000 \u2014 giving productive citizens an explicit incentive to flee the city. Worse yet, he is extending the amortization period for unfunded pension liabilities, pushing hundreds of millions in city obligations well into the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"7\">By kicking the pension can down the road and relying on temporary state aid infusions from Albany, Mamdani isn\u2019t saving New York; he\u2019s merely loading up a fiscal time bomb. Fiscal experts note that these gimmicks leave the city dangerously exposed to massive multi-billion-dollar deficits in the years ahead \u2014 topping out at an estimated $9.8 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"8\">Mamdani wants to pretend he\u2019s the champion of the working class. In reality, Reagan\u2019s free-market policies allowed families to feed themselves through dignity and work. Mamdani\u2019s progressive playbook simply steals financial stability from the future to fund big-government hubris today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mamdani-tries-dunking-on-reagan-ends-up-soaking-wet\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to New York rookie socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani to lecture Americans on hardship while taking aim at one of the most popular and economically successful presidents in history. 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