āIām over the moonā: New Yorkās small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape | TheBriefWire
āIām over the moonā: New Yorkās small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape
Published 25 July 2026 Ā· us
Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation Red Scare? The democratic socialist mayor of New York City
Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation Red Scare? The democratic socialist mayor of New York City spent this week talking about red tape. On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani ā the politician at the center of a revived rightwing panic about socialists and purported communists winning elections across America posted a video on X of himself putting a sheet of paper with the phrase āRED TAPEā into a paper shredder.
Other pieces of paper, with phrases like ācumbersome fees and finesā and āa permit you need just to serve ice-creamā, were shredded too. The video,
set to Wu Tang Clanās If Time Is Money, shows Mamdani joining a handful of city officials and small business owners throwing the resulting paper
shreds into the air like confetti. Continue reading...
Published: July 25, 2026 ā¢ 4:30 PM IST Ā· Updated: July 25, 2026 ā¢ 5:08 PM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation Red Scare?
The democratic socialist mayor of New York City spent this week talking about red tape.
On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani ā the politician at the center of a revived rightwing panic about socialists and purported communists winning elections across America posted a video on X of himself putting a sheet of paper with the phrase āRED TAPEā into a paper shredder.
Other pieces of paper, with phrases like ācumbersome fees and finesā and āa permit you need just to serve ice-creamā, were shredded too.
The video, set to Wu Tang Clanās If Time Is Money, shows Mamdani joining a handful of city officials and small business owners throwing the resulting paper shreds into the air like confetti.
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