A Deeper dive into Mamdani grocery stores...

[Ichabod Stain]

Tax payer dollars are paid in absolute dollars so wasting $500m tax payer dollars, instead of leaving that in their pocket is worse than wasting $70M.

What you are saying is dumb. It is like saying if the Military wastes billions in taxpayer dollars that is of less concern than the smallest agency in gov't wasting thousands of taxpayers dollars as long as the percent of the budget is lower.

No citizen would agree with you and say 'ok wasting the billions is no big deal as it is a small part of the budget'.,

Your TDS is making you try to spin again and you tipped into stupidity.

Add to that an airline bailed out and then owned and ran on taxpayer money will almost certainly become a CONSTANT sink for losses and new tax payer cash going in but it will just come directly from the transportation or another budget directly going forward.

its better to just give the people welfare to buy food at the for profit stores. like we have now.

this government run store is more opportunity for fraud and graft.

you have to MSIA Make Shoplifting Illegal Again.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

Well, the history of trusts, railroads, and banking tells a very different story. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, right on up to Jobs, Gates, and co. have been very diligent in destroying competition by less than honorable means.


It would be impossible, actually.



Yes, but the govt. that has the power to achieve that also has the power to help destroy smaller competitors of big companies. This is where culture and morality comes in; the more that declines or is never there in the first place, the more oppressive laws and regulations become.



Some are natural monopolies, and in some industries economies of scale win out very soon. Others just use the limited liability laws to operate criminal enterprises. Limiting ownership liability serves no public purpose when its a whisky selling business or a shoe maker or whatever. The concept was designed to benefit capital investment in such things as roads, canals, and services that serve the public interest, i.e. railroads, water projects, etc.

I actually like this one.