New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a far left socialist and he needs the Large Apple to have authorities owned grocery shops.
This concept has been tried earlier than and it failed miserably. Anybody who is aware of historical past remembers the photographs of naked cabinets in authorities owned grocery shops within the former Soviet Union.
Mamdani not too long ago shared a survey on Twitter/X exhibiting that New Yorkers assist his thought.
NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters assist creating municipal grocery shops to carry down costs.
“The idea is imminently possible. In actual fact, publicly owned grocery shops are fairly widespread and exist already at scale—within the US navy.”
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— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) April 4, 2025
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson additionally pushed this horrible thought.
From City Journal:
Certainly one of his extra curious proposals, about which he’s buoyant, is to open city-owned and city-managed grocery shops. His marketing campaign literature explains that these municipal shops can be “centered on retaining costs low, not making a revenue. With out having to pay hire or property taxes, they are going to cut back overhead and go on financial savings to buyers. They’ll purchase and promote at wholesale costs, centralize warehousing and distribution, and accomplice with native neighborhoods on merchandise and sourcing.”
In a latest interview, Mamdani mentioned that he needs to determine “a pilot program of 1 retailer in every borough that builds on the feasibility examine that was carried out in Chicago.” Certainly, in 2023, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson did suggest opening such grocery shops, in response to the closing of many supermarkets in poor areas of the town, and he did fee a feasibility examine to look at the query. That examine has not been made public, nonetheless, and Mayor Johnson has backed off his plan, though the state of Illinois established a “Grocery Initiative” to supply municipalities with as much as $2.4 million to open grocery shops. Chicago has not utilized for any of this cash.
There are such a lot of methods this might go badly.
How will a $30 min wage assist maintain costs down? Or will of us be anticipated to work the money registers at no cost?
— Betsy’76 (@LadyAmPatriot) April 4, 2025
Think about the DMV, however a grocery retailer. Within the Soviet Union, individuals waited in line for hours and located empty cabinets, and in Venezuela, authorities management led to meals shortages, leaving many hungry—when the federal government runs shops, it’s more durable to get meals, and costs don’t actually go…
— Matt Kilmer (@mattkilmer) April 4, 2025
This buffoon needs to place bodegas & grocery shops out of enterprise by creating grocery shops run by the town to undercut them. He promised the taxpayer can pay their hire & they will be exempt from sure taxes. You’d must be a psychopath or an fool to assist this https://t.co/nlU2lNQsYv
— Sean Fitzgerald (Precise Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) April 4, 2025
The American left is satisfied that socialism will lastly work this time, so long as they’re in cost.
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