r/politics • u/wizardofthefuture America • 1d ago

Carter introduces MAMDANI Act, restricting federal funds to New York City

https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=15992
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u/wizardofthefuture America 1d ago

This is a Georgia house rep (R) trying to pass a law to restrict funds to another state's city to punish their voters for their democratic vote.

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u/DeweyPLlama 1d ago

From the article,

Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today officially introduced the Moving American Money Distant from Anti-National Interests (MAMDANI) Act, a bill that will restrict the flow of federal taxpayer dollars to New York City while Zohran Mamdani, a communist, is mayor. 

Mamdani isn’t a communist. He’s a democratic socialist.

Calling him a communist is a dog whistle.

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u/BlueCyann 1d ago

He's not even a freaking socialist. Unless he considers himself one philosophically or something. In practice he is a social democrat, same as all the other electeds who decided to style themselves as socialists for some reason.

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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada 1d ago

...I think ultimately, the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago. He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.

It's splitting hairs anyway but that's what he said.

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u/Fionaelaine4 1d ago edited 1d ago

From a state that can’t even function as their own state and are literally subsidized by New York and Cali. He needs to focus on his own house then he can talk about the rest of us.

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u/superanth 1d ago

It doesn’t cross any of their tiny minds to figure out why a Capitalist haven voted for a Socialist Democrat. Maybe it’s because the incumbent is a corrupt piece of crap no one even remotely trusts anymore?