'The work has just begun': Zohran Mamdani takes office as NYC mayor, signals affordability

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : " Running through the speeches was a message that had anchored the campaign from the start and was echoed by Mamdani, Levine, Williams, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez alike: the city's wealthiest residents and biggest corporations should shoulder a greater share of the tax burden.
54% : "I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.
52% : A central pledge of his campaign was to raise New York City's corporate tax rate from 7.25 percent to 11.5 percent, bringing it in line with neighbouring New Jersey, alongside a proposed 2 percent tax increase on individuals earning more than $1 million annually.
50% : READ: Zohran Mamdani sworn in as New York City mayor at midnight ( At 34, Mamdani arrives at City Hall as one of the country's youngest big-city mayors and a rising democratic socialist figure who, just a year ago, was a little-known state assemblyman.
40% : "Demanding that the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes is not radical.

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