New York City has a mayoral election later this year, and the two leading candidates right now are former governor Andrew Cuomo and a state assemblyman named Zohran Mamdani. The latter has gained traction in the polls by promising to build city-run grocery stores that “will operate without profit motive” in order to combat “the outrageous price of groceries.” Leave it to the residents of Gotham to pin their hopes on either the guy who turned nursing homes into COVID death traps or a proud communist who is blithely unaware of the Soviet Union’s history with breadlines.
In response to Mamdani’s plan for government-run grocery stores, John Catsimatidis — the über-successful owner of New York’s Gristedes and D’Agostino food chains — has offered the mayoral candidate one of his supermarkets to test his ideas in practice. The offer comes with one stipulation: The city must eat all shoplifting costs.
Mamdani does not appear eager to accept Catsimatidis’s proposal. After all, New York City is in the middle of a shoplifting crisis today, and mayoral-wannabe Mamdani wants to replace traditional policing with a “Department of Community Safety” that empowers “dedicated outreach workers” to handle “the failures of our social safety net.”
Something tells me that Mamdani’s vision for New York will turn grocery shopping into even more of a nightmare. His city-run stores will become magnets for mass theft, and responding community “outreach workers” will be more concerned with criminals’ “preferred pronouns” than stopping armed robberies. Shelves will be empty. Food prices will go up. New York City’s budget problems will get exponentially worse. It’s all entirely predictable, but plenty of Democrats will vote for this government-engineered catastrophe anyway.
Chalk this up to Democrats’ persistent unwillingness to live within the outer perimeters of reality. When they see grocery prices rise, they blame “greedy” business owners. When those business owners explain that out-of-control shoplifting is a major cost responsible for price increases, Democrats insist that insurance covers such losses. When business owners explain that insurance rates have spiked as a result, Democrats blame “greedy” insurance companies. For a political party obsessed with diagnosing the “root causes” of every societal problem, the Democrat party sure is incapable of connecting the dots between runaway crime and business closures.
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Author: Ruth King
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