Law Prof Jonathan Turley, describing NYC Mayor Mamdani’s promised city-run discount grocery stores.
Rather than deliver discount groceries, Mamdani is selling New Yorkers a bill of goods that will cost them millions.
It is not a description of a competitive grocery but a public charity. It is a quasi-food bank where taxpayers subsidize the cost.
In reality, Mamdani will be selling apples at a far greater cost than any competitor, but those true costs will be buried in the city budget and paid for by the taxpayers
Basically Mamdani is providing New Yorkers the equivalent of food stamps for which they need not apply nor qualify. NYC’s taxpayers will foot the bill for same.
Third world governments have gone down this “subsidized food basics” path. The results are never good, but once offered nearly impossible to retract as riots ensue.
When the Soviets subsidized bread, farmers would buy loaves to feed their chickens. Bread was cheaper than unsubsidized chickenfeed.
