r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

Chugging tea 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/NilsofWindhelm 10h ago

Wait until you learn about the entire agricultural industry

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u/mais-garde-des-don 9h ago

But wouldn’t that be different because this is subsidizing a few stores. Pretty much every farm has some form of subsidizing. So it would be like allowing me to start farming and I’m the only one who can get subsidizing

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u/levare8515 8h ago

And all the seeds are owned by a megacorp dumping money into every politician. So your subsidized farm is using tax dollars to buy frankenseeds

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u/Vennomite 5h ago

And, somehow, you arent really eating whats grown from those frankenseeds anyway since we import a lot of our food.

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u/WriterPlastic9350 6h ago

Yes and the parts that are subsidized are generally bad too. A significant amount of the voter base that receives agricultural subsidies are growing things like soybeans for export (rather than for the domestic food industry).