"We Are Living in the World Occupy Made": New York City Voters Elect Mayor Who Vows to Tax the Rich

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10 жыл бұрын

www.democracynow.org - Tuesday's election signaled a political sea change in New York City as voters chose a candidate who repeatedly emphasized his progressive vision. The city's public advocate, Bill de Blasio, crushed Republican Joe Lhota in the mayoral race to replace billionaire mayor Mike Bloomberg. De Blasio is set to become the first Democrat to lead the city in two decades. During his campaign, de Blasio's signature message focused on what he called a "tale of two cities" and challenge the police department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" program. Mayor-elect de Blasio rose to power with the help of the Working Families Party, an independent political coalition sponsored by labor unions and focused on reducing social and political inequality. The party's grassroots organizing efforts are not limited to New York. It recently won landmark legislation to tackle the student debt crisis in Oregon, fought the corporate education reform agenda in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and won paid sick days in Jersey City, New Jersey. Voters in New Jersey also approved a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage by a dollar to $8.25 an hour and add automatic cost-of-living increases each year. "We are living in the world Occupy made," says Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party. "We are the beneficiaries of what they did in terms of making this [about] inequality, which is from my point of view the core issue of our time."
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@xpto228 10 жыл бұрын

Yes, go ahead, tax the rich, chase them away. Transform New York into a New Detroit.

@Nostradamia 10 жыл бұрын

Electoral speeches! We'll judge by acts and results.

@Franz19970 10 жыл бұрын

Believe it when I see it, sorry for being cynical

@4teepee 10 жыл бұрын

Inequality is unsolvable because with immigration there is more and more downward pressure on wages. Of course, business likes it that way.

@mikerevs34 10 жыл бұрын

don't celebrate until "stop and frisk" is ended.

@aerofart 10 жыл бұрын

trust no one

@tomhenry897 Ай бұрын

The rich moved to Florida

@droolmctool7942 10 жыл бұрын

the title overreaches so hard it's embarrassing. As to the content ... we shall know him by his actions in the future and I wish him the best of luck sincerely!

@emotionalinvalid 10 жыл бұрын

Noblesse Oblige: " "nobility obliges". That means the idea that people who have high social rank or wealth should be helpful and generous to people of lower rank or to people who are poor. The wealthy of today have forgotten that noble French adage. Of course the wealthy do not give back to society because the government allows them not to. Also, Why doesn't Blasio set up a local public health care model?

@miguelmoran6525 9 жыл бұрын

I bet he he rich but still I am not sure I just think he is rich if he is, it's a shame cause if you rich you should be ready to pay tax... We New York people pay tax and we are ready... I want to live luxury and create new tv and be rich and change lives .