<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>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">During a press conference on Monday, Mamdani mockingly referenced former President Ronald Reagan’s iconic 1986 quip: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Mamdani, thinking himself a master of rhetoric, countered: “I think nine more terrifying words are actually ‘I worked all day and can’t feed my family.’”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">MAMDANI: “Ronald Reagan…famously said ‘The nine most terrifying words in the English language are I’m from the government and I’m here to help’…I DISAGREE.”<br /> <a href="https://t.co/cAXqjRz9iI">pic.twitter.com/cAXqjRz9iI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/2056392177652023429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>It’s a cute line, but it’s 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>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="3">Let’s look at the facts. When Reagan took office in 1981, the American economy was being suffocated by Carter-era &#8220;stagflation&#8221; — a toxic mix of double-digit inflation and high unemployment. Reagan didn&#8217;t 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>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="4">Reagan’s supply-side miracle didn&#8217;t 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>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Reagan knew that the American taxpayer didn&#8217;t exist to fund bureaucratic overreach. As he noted in his 1980 GOP acceptance speech, any program representing a &#8220;theft from their pocketbooks&#8221; had to go.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="5">Contrast that economic boom with Mamdani’s <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/mamdani-closes-12-billion-new-york-city-budget-gap">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 &#8220;austerity.&#8221; But a look under the hood reveals that Mamdani’s &#8220;solution&#8221; is just a massive shell game of short-term gimmicks and fiscal procrastination.</p>
<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 &#8220;pied-à-terre&#8221; tax and clawing back unincorporated business tax credits that hit self-employed New Yorkers making as little as $142,000 — 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>
<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&#8217;t saving New York; he’s 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 — topping out at an estimated $9.8 billion by 2030.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="8">Mamdani wants to pretend he’s the champion of the working class. In reality, Reagan&#8217;s free-market policies allowed families to feed themselves through dignity and work. Mamdani’s progressive playbook simply steals financial stability from the future to fund big-government hubris today.</p>

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