Mamdani's 'painful' tax hike threat mocked by Washington Post for proving 'socialist utopia is expensive'

The Washington Post editorial board claimed on Wednesday that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's threat of a "painful" property tax hike was an "admission" that the city has a spending problem.

"Socialist utopia is expensive, but the new mayor didn’t exactly inherit a frugal city," the editorial board wrote. "Mamdani is proposing a $127 billion budget, up $5 billion from last year. That’s a city budget bigger than the state budgets of 47 states. Even the state government of Florida (population...