Democratic Socialists Use Minorities Only to Abuse Them Later
Patrice Onwuka
New Yorkers are learning costly lessons about socialist ideas in action.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made many promises on the campaign trail that excited low-class, working-class, and perhaps even middle-class residents: city-run grocery stores with cheap food, free buses, frozen rents, and free childcare.
The funding mechanism was simple: tax the super-rich.
Now, as Mamdani maneuvers around the limits to his power and authority, his administration is devising creative ways and broader targets to enact his socialist utopia.
Minority communities who assumed they would be the beneficiaries of his redistribution schemes now find themselves as the targets.
As a candidate, Mamdani promised to create a network of city-owned grocery stores with one located in each borough that would sell food at lower prices than bodegas, supermarkets, and other food retailers.
The mayor, a leading member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is just Communists under another name, just released a few more details about the now $70 million grocery store pilot program this week. And the math does not add up.
Mamdani claimed the pilot program would be funded by redirecting half of existing city subsidies in the FRESH program, a bundle of tax breaks and special regulatory relief to private grocery stores that offer healthy foods to 1.2 million people in food deserts across the city.
Grocery stores have invested $177 million of private funds into the FRESH Program, but actual government expenditures have only been about $3-$4 million a year. It’s still a very small program.
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