Food shortages are imminent, NYC doesn't grow any food, it's all imported from somewhere else, Upstate NY, New Jersey,Pennsylvania, etc. If suppliers aren't willing to sell food to the city owned stores at the decreed prices, no food on the shelves (even the out of date and unpopular items). The rich and middle class will be able to afford to buy food from boutique stores for awhile but the working poor, probably not. To counter the boutique stores "competition and price gouging," the city will close them for "health violations" or tax them out of existence. Food riots anyone?
The incoming Socialist Mayor has yet to discover that socialism only "works" (as far as it does work, which is not far) if EVERYONE is on board (by choice or by force).
The Office of the Mayor of NYC's authority ends at the City boundary; it has no power or authority to force growers and suppliers from outside the City -- be they from upstate NY, NJ, PA, or anywhere else -- to sell food to his city-run grocery stores at the price the Mayor's Office demands. It may or may not have the authority to force in-city suppliers to sell at the demanded price, but as you point out, there are none; NYC produces zero food for itself.
So what happens when the Mayor's Office attempts to set the prices on food items, and the growers and suppliers -- who are NOT on board with socialism and CANNOT be forced into it by the NYC Mayor's Office -- simply refuse? The growers and suppliers sell to someone else willing to pay market price, and NYC's chain of city-run grocery stores get no food.
But the City will have its chain of city-run stores operating at zero profit. "We don't know why the people are rioting; on paper the project is a complete success!"
Tax the Rich? You mean the folks who can afford accountants and lawyers to avoid paying taxes? No, its working class people the extortion will be focused on.
To get an idea of how the whole gov't. run food distribution scheme will work, cast your vision to Soviet era Russia, Cuba or , as Miggy illustrates, Venezuela. I like to shop for imaginary groceries!
Flyover country looking better all the time. Now to keep the RINO super majority in Nashville from getting any further left....
Food shortages are imminent, NYC doesn't grow any food, it's all imported from somewhere else, Upstate NY, New Jersey,Pennsylvania, etc. If suppliers aren't willing to sell food to the city owned stores at the decreed prices, no food on the shelves (even the out of date and unpopular items). The rich and middle class will be able to afford to buy food from boutique stores for awhile but the working poor, probably not. To counter the boutique stores "competition and price gouging," the city will close them for "health violations" or tax them out of existence. Food riots anyone?
The incoming Socialist Mayor has yet to discover that socialism only "works" (as far as it does work, which is not far) if EVERYONE is on board (by choice or by force).
The Office of the Mayor of NYC's authority ends at the City boundary; it has no power or authority to force growers and suppliers from outside the City -- be they from upstate NY, NJ, PA, or anywhere else -- to sell food to his city-run grocery stores at the price the Mayor's Office demands. It may or may not have the authority to force in-city suppliers to sell at the demanded price, but as you point out, there are none; NYC produces zero food for itself.
So what happens when the Mayor's Office attempts to set the prices on food items, and the growers and suppliers -- who are NOT on board with socialism and CANNOT be forced into it by the NYC Mayor's Office -- simply refuse? The growers and suppliers sell to someone else willing to pay market price, and NYC's chain of city-run grocery stores get no food.
But the City will have its chain of city-run stores operating at zero profit. "We don't know why the people are rioting; on paper the project is a complete success!"
Tax the Rich? You mean the folks who can afford accountants and lawyers to avoid paying taxes? No, its working class people the extortion will be focused on.
To get an idea of how the whole gov't. run food distribution scheme will work, cast your vision to Soviet era Russia, Cuba or , as Miggy illustrates, Venezuela. I like to shop for imaginary groceries!
Well, the government already has its hands on shelter and he would do food, I suppose clothing would be next.
And then medical care and pharmacies.
Nothing can go wrong. *smh*
The old "Bribe the people with their own tax money", or in the case of socialists, "Bribe the people with other people's money."
"When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul's support."
What's the delay between, "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us," and "We pretend to shop, they pretend to have food to buy"?
And as other commenters have asked, how long before the food riots start? Three days after the stores run dry, on average?