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Am I the only one that sees the NYC Mayor as hypocritical? Quoting Karl Marx, and then complain about the outcome?

Ah, Mayor Mamdani, ever the unwitting philosopher-king, channeling the spirit of Karl Marx with his clarion call for wealth redistribution. Tax the millionaires, screw the corporations, and demand a fairer slice from the state pie. It is almost poetic. He recently lamented that New York City, the beating heart of capitalism, ponies up 54.5 percent of state revenue yet gets a measly 40.5 percent back, as if the city’s woes stem from Albany’s bourgeois hoarding rather than, say, the city’s bloated spending and his own fiscal acrobatics. Doesn’t NYC have the ability to provide, and those in upper state New York have the need? Path 1 reeks of from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, but applied hypocritically. After all, why stop at the state? Why not seize the means of production outright? Instead, we are treated to this Marxist remix. Complain about the imbalance while threatening Path 2’s painful raids on property taxes and reserves, proving that even avowed progressives cannot escape the irony that socialism works only in small communities and on paper, but fails on the large scale. If only the deficit were as easily fixed as quoting dusty manifestos.

The mayor’s direct quote is below.

“Path 1: increase the personal income tax on those earning 1 million or more and increasing the taxes on the most profitable corporations

End the drain by fixing the imbalance between what the city provides New York State and what we receive in return.

Path 2: Raise property taxes on those earning $122,000 or more.

Draw down reserves including the rainy day fund and the retiree health benefits trust fund.”

The second path is painful. We will continue to work with Albany to avoid it. This first path will deliver the structural changes that we need to recalibrate the relationship between the city and the state because as we know, New Yorkers contribute 54.5% of state revenue but only receive 40.5% back. “
Am I the only one that sees the NYC Mayor as hypocritical? Quoting Karl Marx, and then complain about the outcome?
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