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[ADIDAS00]

Careful what you wish for.
I'm reminded of health care reform, where the crux of the dispute isn't that right-wingers are afraid it won't work, it's that they're afraid it will work.
For better or worse, we do have a real problem with far too many Americans being unable to afford nutritious food while there is plenty of it out there and no real reason why it has to be priced out of their reach. That's what he's trying to address here. If you don't think it'll work, what do you think should be done?

I’m a free market person. I think actual free markets would help in this situation.

I’ll give you an example. Where I live there is a very expensive grocery chain. I went there for years and years and it just kept getting more and more expensive. It was infuriating how much groceries were. Everyone I know was soooo pissed about it. We were all fed up.

Then enters capitalism and the free market….another grocery chain opened up. They saw an opportunity. They figured out how to “self distribute” groceries and take out the middle man which drove prices way down. Now I go there. My grocery bill is at least 40% less. I only go to the expensive place for small things or out of convenience because it’s closer.

No one told the expensive place they couldn’t charge expensive prices. No one put price caps on them. They just let them do their thing. They’re losing customers and a ton of business now but that’s up to them to figure out. Let the free market work

In this example, Capitalism drove prices down, not up. This could easily happen in New York. I’m sure there’s a bunch of regulations and red tape preventing it from happening but you have to vote to deregulate and invite new businesses in to compete. Competition is what New York needs.

 

[YDB95]

I’m a free market person. I think actual free markets would help in this situation.

I’ll give you an example. Where I live there is a very expensive grocery chain. I went there for years and years and it just kept getting more and more expensive. It was infuriating how much groceries were. Everyone I know was soooo pissed about it. We were all fed up.

Then enters capitalism and the free market….another grocery chain opened up. They saw an opportunity. They figured out how to “self distribute” groceries and take out the middle man which drove prices way down. Now I go there. My grocery bill is at least 40% less. I only go to the expensive place for small things or out of convenience because it’s closer.

No one told the expensive place they couldn’t charge expensive prices. No one put price caps on them. They just let them do their thing. They’re losing customers and a ton of business now but that’s up to them to figure out. Let the free market work

In this example, Capitalism drove prices down, not up. This could easily happen in New York. I’m sure there’s a bunch of regulations and red tape preventing it from happening but you have to vote to deregulate and invite new businesses in to compete. Competition is what New York needs.

That all sounds great in theory. But in reality, essentially since Reagan, competition has been receding or outright absent in most markets. There used to be governmental watchdog groups that were tasked with making sure companies didn't get together and agree to raise prices or at least not lower them. Technically there still are, but they're largely toothless at this point. This is exactly what people like you are usually referring to when they whine about governmental overreach. It's all very well and good to say let the market sort it out, but if that attitude always worked, we'd have no need for laws at all.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Fascism.

https://i.imgur.com/N24tlL7.png

 

[YDB95]

Fascism.

https://i.imgur.com/N24tlL7.png

In light of who's asking and the likely makeup of her twitter feed, I'm surprised it's that close.

 

[Bn2f]

Fascism.

https://i.imgur.com/N24tlL7.png

My “Is my makeup ready for the cameras” rep.

 

[Dhfranklin94]

Visited is not living here day to day. Visiting doesn’t typically allow for grocery shopping to feed yourself and your family so perhaps you can elaborate on your point?

My point is that he has publicly stated he wants government owned grocery stores. Government has no business being in the retail business competing against private businesses. Sorry, I just don't want to go down the slippery slope to socialism and communism where the government owns everything and you have no choice.

 

[ll74]

My point is that he has publicly stated he wants government owned grocery stores. Government has no business being in the retail business competing against private businesses. Sorry, I just don't want to go down the slippery slope to socialism and communism where the government owns everything and you have no choice.

He doesn't have the ability in the office to do that.

 

[Dhfranklin94]

He doesn't have the ability in the office to do that.

I agree. But a scary thought.

 

[ll74]

I agree. But a scary thought.

Not really.

Unless he goes rough shot over his.
city representativrs and they don't push back... Kinda like the federal level currently.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Congressman Andy Ogles calls for Mamdani to be deported.

“Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York,” Ogles wrote in a Thursday post on the social platform X, appearing to invoke the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

“He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings,” he added.

The Tennessee lawmaker attached his letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi in the post, urging her to denaturalize Mamdani, citing a chapter from the U.S. Code that outlines the revocation of citizenship for individuals who willfully misrepresent or conceal material support for terrorism.

Typical fascist grandstanding by MAGA loons.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

My point is that he has publicly stated he wants government owned grocery stores. Government has no business being in the retail business competing against private businesses. Sorry, I just don't want to go down the slippery slope to socialism and communism where the government owns everything and you have no choice.

But that’s exactly what Trump ran on.

 

[Baztrachian]

You don’t appear to know a thing about authoritarians.
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None of this would’ve had to have happened had he only followed the instructions of the police.

You sir, are the authoritarian.

Just because some bunch of fuckwits with badges come up on someone and start demanding ID does not constitute probable cause. Even in New Mexico the police are required to have articulable probable cause that someone has committed a crime before they can stop them and require them to produce ID.

You either like letting the police shit all over your civil rights or else you comply too easily.

I don't do either.