Posted on 07/04/2025 11:52:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Zohran Mamdani has moved forward in the New York City mayoral race as the Democratic nominee, after beating out former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary. With Mamdani’s rapid rise to popularity among NYC’s more well-to-do circles comes a slew of promises, all pointed at introducing a new agenda to the Big Apple: socialism.
Mamdani has promised everything from freezing rent and raising the minimum wage to $30, to constructing affordable housing, providing free public transportation, and offering “no-cost” childcare. One of his more far-fetched ideas is to create a network of “city-owned grocery stores,” aimed at lowering costs while operating as “profit-free” entities. According to Mamdani, these city-owned grocery stores would not have to pay property taxes or rent, and would “pass the savings to you.”
While Mamdani’s idea of a city-regulated grocery chain sounds great on paper (as most socialist ideas do), this pie-in-the-sky rhetoric does little else than promise illusory benefits, relying on the hope that constituents vote for a socialist who claims to be “looking out for the little guy.”
The push for city-controlled grocery stores came into the spotlight after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made headlines promising city-run stores to promote “equitable” access to food in Chicago’s so-called “food deserts.” “All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options… My administration is committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities,” Johnson proclaimed.
Unfortunately for Chicagoans, this plan never materialized—Johnson failed to apply for Illinois’s funding initiative in time, leaving many hungry and disillusioned.
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Yesterday’s news.
I hope it’s legal to steal from the government-owned grocery stores. Because, my children will starve if I can’t do that. And it’s really just reparations, if you think about it.
Sounds like Conner can’t wait. Somebody is going to have to feed the tax deductions of unemployed, deadbeat “bread winners” or they will all die from starvation and being thirsty.
Are you one of those people with the attention span of a goldfish?
Virginia has state run liquor stores. Odd dynamics out there.
Because “big grocery” is robbing the population with profit margins as large as....2%!
The reason there are food deserts is NOT because the property taxes or the rent are too high, but because of the cost of theft and competition from local food pantries and government giveaways.
If there is a sustainable non-profit grocery store in this country, please provide the address and phone number. There are two ways for a "non-profit" enterprise to be sustainable; through the cash register or through the kindness of strangers (tax money, which eventually leads back to the national debt).
Today’s government-owned grocery stores will ultimately lead to tomorrow’s rations and bread lines.
Just like the USSR with nothing in them ,LOL
Who makes up lost property taxes? Who makes up income taxes on rent income?
I wouldn’t set foot in that cesspool for my grandma’s funeral, if I had a grandma.
If you don’t want this then certainly don’t vote for this clown Mamdani. I hate to think what NYC will become if he gets elected.
I’m sorry..our records show you voted Republican...no food for you.
I hope it’s legal to steal from the government-owned grocery stores.
And only be allowed to sell products approved by the mayor.
This clown doesn’t scare me at all. What does scare me is that there is anyone stupid enough to vote for the psycho.
Albany, New York: A government-supported grocery store was attempted in a food desert but closed within two years due to debt and mismanagement, highlighting the challenges of sustaining such initiatives.
If the GOP does even its usual half-assed job of promoting a mayoral alternative, a win is possible as long as the candidate can fog a mirror.
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