Brian Lair on WNYC.

By the way, that Colbert, typical TV ratings number I was looking for, my team looked it up,

and he averages about 2.6 million total viewers a night and nothing

against Colbert by any means, but it is an indication of, you know, with 330 million Americans,

how far network television in general has fallen if not only not even three million people a night

are watching a prime late night talk show so the seven million plus views on youtube trounces that

doubles it shows you where the media is going where the media is just for some some context on that. So, on Tuesday, Mayor Mabani

released his first annual budget proposal. Budget, of course, is policy. How much will New York

City or any place spend on education, on housing, on law enforcement, on child care, and more?

And who will pay how much in taxes to fund

those spending and policy priorities? In Mamdani's case, you know some of the prelude to this.

He campaigned on fostering more equality in the city through universal child care, free city

buses, new housing programs, also on taxing the wealthiest corporations and people with

million dollar a year incomes as individuals, several percentage points more to help pay for those

things. And he inherited a multi-billion dollar budget deficit for the coming fiscal year that by

law he will have to close before adding anything new by raising revenue,

dipping into the city's reserves, or finding savings in existing programs.

Every path comes with a price and political controversies.

So what does the new mayor prioritize?

Is it much different from past mayors in this budget?

And why is he suddenly talking

about the possibility of a property tax increase? That's not the progressive tax the rich

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