New York Post Slams AOC: Blaming Her For Soaring Costs In NYC While Championing Working-Class

In a town hall meeting earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez expressed concern over the city's affordability, stating, "The people who are moving out of the city are not by and large the wealthiest people. They’re the working class. They can’t afford to live here anymore." She used this argument to advocate for increased taxation of the city's affluent residents.

However, the editorial board of the New York Post, in a piece published on Tuesday, argued that the policies championed by Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive allies are the very cause of the city's high cost of living. The board wrote, "For once, AOC is right: ‘They can’t afford to live here anymore,’ she said Monday of working-class Gothamites. The thing is, it’s the policies that she and her progressive allies want more of that have made the city so expensive."

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The editorial further criticized Ocasio-Cortez's stance on immigration, arguing that the influx of immigrants, particularly in New York, has been a significant financial burden. "To pay for the migrants AOC and her ilk demand we admit in infinite numbers, and house and feed forever at a cost of more than $12 billion through fiscal 2025," the editorial stated.

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The board also took issue with the progressive approach to housing, citing a recent survey that revealed a third of New Yorkers are spending over half their income on rent. The editorial argued that the push for more rent control has exacerbated the housing shortage in the city. It pointed out that progressive lawmakers have "done so much to reduce the amount of housing, from blocking renewal of the 421a tax break for developers (responsible for the vast majority of new affordable housing in the past two decades) to 2019’s Tenant Protection Act, which has taken 43,000 units off the market because it doesn’t let landlords cover the costs of bringing old apartments up to code."

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The editorial also criticized Ocasio-Cortez's climate change agenda, asserting that it has led to soaring power prices for New Yorkers. It further lambasted the progressive "criminal justice ‘reforms,'" claiming they have resulted in "billions of dollars stolen by shoplifting thugs from retailers big and small."

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The board concluded by warning of the consequences of continued progressive rule in New York, stating, "AOC and her fellow leftists simply don’t care what their ideas actually mean for the people whose interests they claim to represent. And if progressive ideology continues to rule New York, it’ll get ever more unaffordable — and the exodus will accelerate."