Grocery stores
One thing that Zohran Mamdani has said he would do as mayor of New York is to open stste-run grocery stores ... Zohran Mamdani wants to build government supermarkets. America already has them
Reminds me of when I was a kid and my grnadparents shopped at the airforce base commissary. But, just because we Democrats know that people need more help, why re-invent the wheel, or try to turn the US into some modern version of the Socialist Republic of Romania?
We already have a government plan to help struggling people buy food ... food stamps (which I myself receive). It would be more efficient to make that a better program: expand the number of people who can qualify, expand the items that can be bought (adding non-food items like soap, TP, etc), and expand the amount of money given to people.
In this way, people could use their food stamps (or EBT cards, actually) at any grocery store they like, from Target to Whole Foods, and they wouldn't be limited to whatever the state government provides.
posted by crystal | 10:50 AM
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I would rather see an expansion of what EBT cards can buy than state owned grocery stores, which just don't seem like a viable idea, outside of a military base. For one thing it doesn't make sense to me that people can't buy prepared food at the deli counter with EBT, but they can buy the exact same thing in the frozen food dept. For instance, fried chicken or pizza. Not everyone has an oven at home, though most have a microwave.
I think some of the rules are unspoken ideas like "people on welfare shouldn't be dining out, they should be buying dried beans and flour and rice and maybe rutabages" ;)
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