Little does the brainwashed average American know that all the western allies of the US have some sort of socialist governments. Even the US under Trump is technically a socialist country that tries to distribute wealth with fiscal and other policies and uses subsidies to protect its economy.
The average American doesn't understand the basics of political economics. He believes all the crap he is fed by Fox News and the MAGA-GOP consortium: They have him so scared of socialism that he prefers to be bamboozled by all the insurance companies and other corporations that run his life and that often stand between him and the state's services. Americans have become chronic Stockholm Syndrome victims who love their kidnappers and those who hold them hostage.
Americans spend much of their lives counting, calculating, computing...every little petty detail of their lives. Every year, they have to read voluminous updates to their insurance companies' policies in which the company makes changes to its coverage, often in fine print that no one reads. Based on all the fabulations around the "American Dream", Americans should be the happiest people on earth. But the US ranked 24th in 2025, its lowest ever. They are not a happy bunch. In contrast, people in top-ranking happy countries like Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland and other European countries live under "socialist" governments and are the happiest people on earth.
Unlike Americans, they do not enjoy being raped by government-backed private corporations. They have everything they need. They have no fear. They make their own governments, unlike in America where giant corporations and a few billionaires make the government.
Nikos Kazantsakis once said, "I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free". Americans are not really free: they hope for a lot of stuff and they fear a lot of things. They are made to believe they are free, but they live in constant fear, not of migrants and immigrants like Trump wants them to believe, but of their own government's rapacious vultures and sharks that haunt their lives from the day they're born to the day they die. Someone once said that in America people are always afraid of the police, in contrast to some of the "socialist" European countries where the police are afraid of the people.
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Mamdani's plan for NY City is to tax billionaires
New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani explains his plan to tax richer neighborhoods. Right-wing pundits claim this is a racist move because the wealthiest neighborhoods in New York are also the whitest.
The democratic candidate said Sunday that his push to burden excessively wealthy taxpayers was not racist. "That is just a description of what we see right now," Mamdani told NBC’s "Meet the Press" on Sunday. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being undertaxed and which are overtaxed.
Mamdani’s policy proposal, "Stop the Squeeze on NYC Homeowners," outlines his plans to "shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer neighborhoods."
The policy notes that homeowners in wealthy neighborhoods "pay less than their fair share," and proposes adjusting tax rates and assessment percentages to address the obvious imbalance.
Zohran Mamdani is planning to adjust tax rates and assement percentages among NYC homeowners.
When asked whether he would change the language of the proposal, Mamdani said that the proposal is meant to ensure a fair property tax system and that the wording simply reflects an observation.
"The use of that language is just an assessment of the neighborhood," Mamdani said.
"I’m just naming things as they are," he added. "The thing that motivates me in this is to create a system of fairness. It is not to work backwards from a racial assessment of neighborhoods or our city."
Mamdani also reiterated his belief that "we shouldn’t have billionaires," despite campaigning in the city believed to have the most billionaires in the world at 123 people.
"I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly," he said. "It is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country."
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