So, You Want a Government-Run Grocery Store?
Recreating the Soviet Union’s rationed food lines will hardly improve the lives of the poor in New York City.
New York’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, has proposed a government-run grocery store chain. He says it would pay no rent or taxes — and magically sell food at a lower cost than commercial free enterprise stores.
Forget that this socialist, government-run grocery store would put small, local, largely minority- and…