Blue States vs. Red States on ‘Affordability’, by Jarrett Stepman

“Affordability” has become the word of the month as American economic anxieties become a major point of political contention between Democrats and Republicans.

Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani rode to victory in the New York City mayor’s race in part due to his promise to address the issue. Of course, he offered what socialists have been selling to the public for more than a century: free stuff, all paid for by the “rich,” the “billionaires,” or in Mamdani’s case, white neighborhoods in the city.

But talk is one thing, reality is another. Will the kind of government intervention Mamdani and others are promising deliver positive results for the American people?

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So far, it hasn’t. President Donald Trump and those who seek to stem this socialist tide have a serious rebuttal to the idea that the Left can deliver. …

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