My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

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Getting some mixed signals here.

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i would be much less annoyed about paying it if it were just charged in my regular taxes instead of via weird guys coming to my house, frankly

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*though imo the BBC might need to make some sweeping reforms if it wants to be a public good again and not a public harm

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like if your argument is that everyone should be paying it regardless of whether they actually make use of the thing in question... sorry to say it but that's a tax, buddy. I'm fine in principle with collecting money to find a public good* but at least let's call it what it is

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