Communist Islamist Zohran Mamdani announced the Open for Small Business program today with 50 new reforms for small businesses. He cleverly framed it as a bill to help ice cream vendors everywhere. Businesses selling hot food won’t need a separate license to sell ice cream. Great! However, there are some real questionable reforms lumped into the 50 new reforms.
The radical Ugandan, who only became a citizen eight years ago, said:
“You cannot tell the story of New York without our small businesses, and yet our city has often made it too hard for them to open their doors and keep them open,” said Mayor Mamdani. “The owners tell us the same thing again and again. What wears them down is not simply the cost of any one fee, it is the paperwork and the inconsistency they face when dealing with their own government. Today we are not only announcing reforms, we are building the machinery to find and fix more, so that a small business owner in this city is finally treated as someone government works for, not around.”
Sounds good, but maybe not.
Zohran takes something that is true, and then sets up potential third-world-style problems. Some of it is likely meant to make it easier for our third-world imports to do what they do in their third-world countries.
For example, Mamdani is making it easier to open child-care facilities, which are already rife with corruption.
Mobile street vendors don’t need to carry a copy of their commissary agreement in their cart. How is that a good idea? We already have a problem of foreigners selling stolen goods on the street. Now, it will be easier for them to do it. These vendors take away from legitimate businesses and their ability to make money. It also cheapens and uglifies a neighborhood in no time.
Bingo and games of chance won’t have caps for nonprofit fundraisers. Why do I suspect they will become corrupted? Will this be another way for foreigners to invest in US elections?
That is for starters. He thinks like a third-worlder.
Mamdani: In a win for every ice cream lover across New York City, we will work with the state to do away with the frozen dessert permit that requires restaurants to seek out a superfluous second permit for what they’re already doing: serving food.
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— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2026
