Zohran Mamdani announces he'll launch government-run supermarkets in NYC if elected mayor.
Discussion
This will be funny
They already have them. They're called food banks.
Guy obviously never heard of the many fallacies of economics
The only thing that made any sense was getting rid of property tax. The rest of what he said was complete trash.
Even the property tax doesn't make sense inside the city. It's not families living in there. It's a bunch of rent-seeking bloodsuckers. Bad deal, all the way around.
Oh dear. The real problem is that so many morons will think this is a great idea.
The DMV but it sells food. Brilliant.
Having lived in Venezuela under Chavez, I know how this ends.
And it’s deeply saddening to know that what I witnessed firsthand there is likely coming to the city I call home.
That said, I feel for the desperate people who think this candidate will make things better for them.
Most don’t know better and just want their pain to end. I can sympathize with that.
I don’t blame these people. I blame the fiat system, as it creates this type of pain by siphoning wealth away from everyday people.
Most of these people don’t have the headspace to understand that #Bitcoin is an antidote to that system, but I believe that, in time, they will.
Until then, candidates like this will propose and maybe even try to execute on “solutions” that history has shown to be ineffective at best and utterly destructive at worst.
Sad times, but things will get better.
We’re making them better.
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Why stop with groceries? What about city owned car lots? City owned restaurants?
He didn't learn his lesson with the destructive outcomes of rent control in New York? The outcomes for price control in grocery stores will be the equally as destructive, if not worse.
If the city starts selling groceries, maybe next they’ll sell boats too? 😂 Just imagine NYC-branded new boats for sale floating down the Hudson. (You know, like these: https://www.yachttrading.com/new-yachts-for-sale/)
Politicians being politicians
Love a good bread line. Cant wait.
Fuck me sideways, COMMUNISM is coming to NYC in 2025. We are literally going backwards
"These stores will operate without a profit motive" 🤷♂️🤦♂️
So they gonna inject your tax money when they need it, for not closing the stores even if they are in debt. You will pay for their debts.
Nothing is free. Plus you will pay the price difference of the groceries in tax too
communists out