NY State Assemblyman and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani has been declared the winner in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election, defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa and Independent Andrew Cuomo.
Mamdani’s campaign bore striking resemblance to that of Henry George, the political economist who, in 1886, ran for mayor on a platform confronting the same contradiction: a city bursting with progress yet mired in poverty. Like George, Mamdani named the problem of exorbitant rents. But he has not yet embraced George’s solution, which would address inequality while enhancing prosperity: the land value tax.
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