Yes, "they'll" come, but who will leave?

Zohran Mamdani Says His Sunny Socialism Will Bring Americans to NYC and Make Residents Want to Stay

Offering tons of free stuff is bound to attract looters and parasites, and those who are here already are likely to want to remain, but what about the productive segment, the ones who are supposed to stick around and produce all the wealth that’s going to fund the party? Houston, we may have a problem.

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll

Staten Island voters led the stampede, with 21% saying they’d go and another 54% considering it. In Manhattan, 6% say they’d flee and 20% are unsure; in Brooklyn, it’s 8% and 18%.

These types of polls are generally pretty worthless: imagine, for instance, how much better our country would be now if all the celebrities who promised to leave the country if Trump were elected had stuck to their word? Still, it’s a bit naive of Mamdani’s supporters to think that they will be richer when wealth is redistributed; they think it’s other people’s money that will be handed out, not theirs, but if they’re earning an income, they’re going to be funding pool for the city’s new population of freeloaders.