Now that Kamala Harris is talking about food price controls, we should consider that Democrats are also talking about city—and state-run grocery stores. They are also regulating small farms out of existence, and Big Agriculture is taking over. Does it sound like the US government is trying to take over the food supply like all dictators do when they take over a country?
Karl Marx wanted collective ownership to supplant private ownership because he envisioned eliminating social classes and class struggle. His communism has never worked and any careful analysis of the theory shows it cannot work.
Chicago Sun-Times:
“Chicago could fill its “food desert” with a three-store network of city-owned grocery stores for an upfront cost of $26.7 million, a consultant has concluded.
The new 200-page report from HR&A concludes Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to open a city-owned grocery store is “necessary, feasible and implementable.”
Necessary because volatility in the grocery market has led to a wave of consolidations and store closings concentrated in South and West Side neighborhoods.
This is feasible because the city need not become a store operator but instead could act to limit the risk for a private operator.
Implementable because the city’s “significant land ownership, funding tools,” storage, and “community engagement capacity” make it “well-positioned” to provide “support and resources to an established operator.”
They are trying it out in Chicago for one, and predictably, it’s losing money. It’s a relic from the Soviet Union. What Chicago needs to do is go after the crime that forces the stores to close. It won’t be better if the government runs them.
Retailers lost $112 Billion to Theft in 2022. Rather than deal with theft and violence and hold criminals accountable, the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson decided to establish centrally-planned, Soviet-style, and city-owned groceries.
The Wall Street Journal dispatched a reporter to check out the municipal-owned grocery store in Erie, Kansas, which opened in 2021.
“Erie Market, which the city took to over in 2021, is losing money almost every month amid stiff competition from a Walmart 15 miles away and a Dollar General across the street,” reports the Journal‘s Joe Barrett. Erie Market posted just a single profitable month during 2022 and lost $132,000.
Communism can’t work.
People … Government already dictates every “weights and measure” ( Price of Gasoline). Healthcare: Regulations to the obscene! Government owns Your Corporate Healthcare. So, you idiots are getting SUCKER PUNCHED , TWICE! FDA “all food/drugs sold and its conditions are strictly controlled by government.” Government tells you FOOLS how high your grass is allowed to Grow! I cannot go fishing… Read more »
Why do you have a Government? Why? So you can blow up GODS poor people all over the GD world and pay for it; while getting nothing in return? Some sort of demonic self-mutilation blood ritual, America? This makes you 100-percent responsible, America. However, none of you have a snowballs chance in hell of understanding price controls. No Price Controls… Read more »
I know this scares the JESUS out of all of you; because you do not know Jesus. Jesus said to Feed the Poor, Not to Maximize Profits! Nevertheless, you, America, have a BIG, FAT, GREEDY “corporate monopoly monstrocity” out there in reality. The Beast is Hungry Too! So, if you want to let “Satanic Corporations” set your food prices you… Read more »
Why are the city stores losing money to a Walmart 15 miles away and dollar general across the street if they had the best prices and selection they would be kicking it
competition always brings best for the people
There is no competition. Most Grocers are Corporate Monopolies. You have all been living in a Dream World of Free Market Capitalism; while the Corporations Consolidated and Monopolized, Everything! There are 4 companies that own the entire EGG market: Recall the Problem with 7-dollar eggs? Those companies all posted 100-percent profit/earnings growth. So, the Inflation was all Corporate Monopolies Rasing… Read more »
And, I hate to bust your bubble; but walmart was largely monopolized and consolidated by, and for, Government. Walmart is not your local Family run Business! Google is the Same: BIG GOVERNMENT PRODUCT. They got all of your Info too! Sneaky Devils, Indeed. Government has been propiing up STOOGES like, ZUKERBURG, as some sort of free market “wet dream” when… Read more »
And, you know … STOP with this “stupid homeless persons market” in CA; because communism has nothing to do with this matter! FDR used price controls and all of America cheered Him! You will see Crime like you never imagined -or even dreamed in your worst nightmares- if you continue to allow Corporations to Price food , as luxury for… Read more »
“For years the French new there would be a revolution; but it didn’t begin till the French were starving!” Colonel Douglas Macgregor.
Yes, but nobody understands this and they will repeat History. The Violence is Already Starting. Just wait until the corporations “Juiced up by the Do nothing Attitude in America” Get Really Greedy!
Downgrades with no Content? Typical Idiots! All of you “combined and multiplied” could not debate me, so you pull this childish downgrade and run. Thanks For Playing , Suckers!
Keep Hitting it; because I am Winning!