A proposal for a government-run grocery store chain in New York City by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani would operate without rent or taxes. This initiative risks displacing small, local minority and immigrant-run grocery stores. It would also burden taxpayers financially due to required government bureaucracy and loss of tax revenues. Existing examples like KC Sun Fresh in Kansas City show that such semi-socialist ventures require massive public funding and often degrade over time, highlighting the inefficiencies of large bureaucracies in delivering promised results.
Launching this semi-socialist project was expensive. Instead of private capital from a major grocery store chain, the city has paid tens of millions of dollars taken from the taxpayers to fund the store.
Recreating the Soviet Union's rationed food lines will hardly improve the lives of the poor in New York City.
Forget centuries of domestic and foreign experiences with big bureaucracies failing to innovate, meet goals, and produce promised results.
Don’t consider that the math of running a totally government-run socialist grocery store will require a lot of money from hard working taxpayers.
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