Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

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What is a bad idea for a local government (as this sounds like it is) can be a good idea in the macro. I’ve long held that we should do something like this on the federal level. Essentially it is the modern equivalent of “priming the pump” back during the depression.

The way it would work is like this. If you filed a tax return in (pick a year....2028), in 2029, you’re given a $50 stipend to spend. 400M filers X $50.00 is $20 Billion dollars a month or $240B a year. Yes we can afford it; considering out “conservative” presidents ahve spent upwards of 2-6 times that on defense every year. This would also replace a lot of the public assistance that the government dishes out in the form of WIC (to name one program). Every filer gets it; no qualification. If you make $10K a month, you’re getting it too.

The catch is this; the money is only good at the following location; simultaneously, the department of commerce opens an online marketplace that sells only American made products. By that I mean stuff that is made here from American materials. Set a % at that--I say at least 85% made here. Canned food will probably be the largest single segment of items available but I think we could rejuvenate (on a small scale) our textile industry with clothing, curtains, car seat covers, table cloths, cotton diapers, etc... Like the textiles American made furniture and electronics can benefit from the one of the things that is lacking the most; a distribution channel to consumers where price isn’t the determining factor. Few people think to themselves...”Wow, that TEMU end table is just the style I want.” They buy from TEMU because it is cheap. With the subsidy mentioned above, you can lower the price of the goods to Americans. Hel...lAmerican beer and wine can make a come-back and (where practical) can be delivered from wherever the distribution centers are to be located.

The $50 a month would accumulate too (to a total of $600--after that; no mas until you start spending it). If you want to save up for a North Carolina rocking chair...you can.

The key is to get Americans manufacturing again. It would help numerous other sectors but manufacturing drives a lot of spin offs. The can of corn in your cabinet employed the farmers, the cannery, the truckers who delivered it and the store who sold it. Imported cans (if there are such a thing) skip 1/2 of that supply chain. Not so good.

More government. What a terrible idea.

 

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How do city-owned grocery stores work? What to expect at NYC's first

What’s affordable, healthy, and consumed all over? Groceries from your local city-owned supermarket. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is generating some buzz this week with his announcement that New York City is gearing up to open its first batch. Joined by a number of city officials, Mamdani on Monday...

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$30 million and 3 years because it is being built from the ground up and will use UNION WORKERS.

This is a scam and a giant theft of taxpayer money to pay back those who helped get Mamdani elected,

Here is a communist grocery store.



If ONLY CERTAIN ITEMS ARE CHEAPER…PEOPLE WILL GO ONLY FOR THOSE ITEMS.

Also, the private stores can lower their prices.

What Mamdani is doing is trying to put private stores out of business so that people rely on the government.

COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK!

All the construction workers in NY get union wages

Unless they are illegal aliens working under the table

BTW:

I wonder if shoplifting be allowed in Mandami’s Folly?

Are you hungry for a Snickers Bar?

Now libs can simply run down to the nearest Mandami Mart and literally “pick” one up