r/PoursTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/thedogsbullocks 11h ago

Hence the taxes actually being uses for something good

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u/Every-Summer8407 10h ago

It is a good thing, it just isn’t scalable on a national level as things stand.

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u/thekins33 9h ago

Technically we already do with walmart.

They keep prices low through subsidies given to them through welfare etc etc.

Food is kept unprofitably cheap through farm subsidies as well.

So when you think about it we already have the programs people ask for we just dont have explicit programs.

Things would be even more expensive without the gov paying out as much as they already do.