My 'guess' is quoting Mamdani's numbers for the most part.
No, the problem is that food cost money to raise and store. Distribution is just one part of that problem. Or, are you saying that farmers and people in the distribution chain should work for free?
My side does math. That's something completely alien to the Left.
Why should someone who finds the bus inconvenient or difficult to use start using it simply because it's free? It's like the light rail here in Phoenix. Let's say I need to go to Phoenix city hall to get a building permit. I could drive downtown and park for $5 in a garage and walk a few blocks to city hall, get the permit and then drive to wherever. Or, I could take the light rail at about triple the time for $2 to do the same thing.
Time is money, and saving about two hours, possibly three, by driving downtown is a major savings over using the light rail. So, why wouldn't I do that?
Same thing in NYC. If the bus takes a lot longer, is potentially unsafe, but is free and I can drive to where I need to go and park for say $10 but I'm making thousands that day in pay, why the fuck would I bother with the bus to save a couple of bucks?
What you will see is people who already take the bus now take it for free as the bus system loses millions upon millions in fares that have to be made up to keep the drivers paid and the buses running.
Shelter isn't a "Right." It has to be paid for somehow. People know they need shelter--except maybe the mentally ill. They need to work to the extent they can to pay for that. They also don't deserve opulent suites or whatever.
They can't be used for virtually any situation the police show up to now. They aren't going to fix domestic violence. They aren't going to fix turnstile jumpers on the subway or pickpockets and that sort of thing. They are secondary to the police. That is, when the cops think a social worker can help, they can request one rather than have the social worker requesting police at virtually every call they go to.
The state should be the last resort, not the first.
Actually, the US has some of the finest and best healthcare on the planet. What the US doesn't have in most surveys of those systems is a socialized one which is how the survey grades systems. That is, they grade on things like "Access to care," or "Fairness," or something like cost sharing.
On actual level and quality of care, the US usually is like first or second. Sure, it's expensive but it's top notch.
