Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium!

Zohran Mamdani claims he has the answer to the epidemic of New York City public transit assaults on city workers: Make buses free again. While he has no data to back up the correlation between free buses and public transit, he claims "anecdotally" you should believe him.

I know what you are thinking, and yes, this man is, in fact, stupid.

According to the New York Post:

New York City, take this as a warning: The “free bus” program that Zohran Mamdani has made a key part of his platform in his campaign for mayor is a proven failure.

We have seen it with our own eyes in our home town, Kansas City, Mo., which launched a fare-free bus program in 2020 — and pulled the plug on it this year.

We saw the degradation riders experienced under our city’s Zero Fare initiative, and spoke to our bus operators about the many problems it caused.

While I am not saying that the city should be charging astronomical fees for public transit, especially because the city takes so much from residents and provides nothing of substance, the assertion that this will somehow decrease crime is asinine and deeply unserious.

In 2024, Mamdani wrote an article for The Nation that praised Kansas City’s program as a successful model for a big-city bus system.

Assaults on bus operators prior to 2020, when Zero Fare first launched, averaged about one or two annually.

After introducing no-fare transit, the incidents increased dramatically.

This resulted in bus operators facing a record 32 assaults. He doesn't cite that data. Why do you think that is?

How exactly will this make bus drivers safer? I am having a real hard time seeing the correlation here. Wouldn't it be logically equivalent to leaving your doors unlocked to prevent being assaulted by intruders? Yeah, the logic is not very logical with this one.

I am not here to tell you what or if the city should be charging a bus fare, but I am here to tell you that implying this will somehow make people safer is a naive and asinine policy position, and it’s embarrassing, at best.

We all know that Socialists believe making things “free” will suddenly end all problems, but they really seem to make everyone worse off. Why do you think that is?