The pair of lawsuits, filed in New York State Supreme Court, allege the city's plan will harm independent grocers, many of whom are minorities, by siphoning customers and forcing their businesses to close.
Hear me out. What if instead of selling food below cost to all comers at taxpayer expense, then using more taxpayer dollars to subsidize private companies that can't compete, we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?
