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"No Direct Cash Grants: The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) clarified that the city is not offering cash grants to private grocers to offset competition from municipal stores. Expanding Existing Programs: The administration plans to expand existing tax abatements, zoning benefits, and incentive programs to help independent grocers reduce their utility, rent, and operational cost pressures"

-No one wants to run retail stores or gas stations. NYC is opening grocery stores in location that the capitalist markets refused to serve.

Bull ----. They're already negotiating to subsidize the markets in the areas where the state stores will be opening.

#100 | Posted by lfthndthrds

"N.Y.C. Groceries initiative uses a hybrid model: the City owns the real estate and sets mandates for affordability and quality, while experienced third-party retail operators manage daily store operations. The primary drivers behind the policy include:
Combating Food Deserts & "Food Swamps": More than two dozen neighborhoods in NYC lack full-service supermarkets, leaving residents reliant on corner bodegas or dollar stores where fresh, affordable produce is scarce.
Lowering Everyday Costs: Driven by sharp inflation in basic food staples, the city aims to offer discounted prices on a "core basket" of essential foods.
Serving as a "Public Option": Traditional private supermarkets operate on narrow profit margins (1"3%) and often avoid opening in low-income neighborhoods. By removing commercial real estate acquisition costs and real estate taxes, the city seeks to force price competitiveness without requiring customers to qualify via income or means testing. "

Where you have to pay high taxes and have a supplemental medical policy? Those countries?

#95 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Yeah those countries where NO ONE is saying "hey this sucks lets copy america's system instead."

You want to run retail stores, gas stations, electric supply like it's a fire station, right? While the government subsidizes the private ones. That's the stupidest ---- I ever heard.

#83 | Posted by lfthndthrds

No one wants to run retail stores or gas stations. NYC is opening grocery stores in location that the capitalist markets refused to serve.

As for electric supply, how the electric system supposed to be capitalist? Are we going to have multiple companies with multiple wires and towers on the same street and you pick which one you want? Capitalism requires competition and competition is impossible for electricity, water, fire, and police, and in many cases medicine too.

But most of you who embrace it aare too retarded to actually think.

#78 | Posted by lfthndthrds

We're being lectured by a guy who voted for a born-rich lifelong con artist to be his warrior against the elites.

Or if trump's ego makes him want to put his name on something better than a building.

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So when you get the free health care?

#64 | Posted by john_savage2 a

When we get a liberal president and a few more liberal congresspeople.