Remember when our cities were the envy of the world? When New York stood for something other than decay and mismanagement? That America wasn’t lost by accident. It was pushed aside, deliberately, by leaders who have nothing but contempt for the principles that made it great in the first place.

This demolition job is orchestrated by leaders infected with a dangerous idea: that they know best. They see free enterprise as a problem to be solved and citizens as subjects to be managed. They no longer trust in the power of the individual to build and innovate. Their latest “solution” for New York City is a doozy.

From ‘The Post Millennial’:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is proposing to spend $70 million on his plan for a network of government-owned grocery stores, a sum $10 million higher than he pledged on the campaign trail, even as his administration warns of a multibillion-dollar fiscal shortfall and raises the prospect of higher property taxes. According to sources familiar with preliminary budget documents…the proposed funding would flow through the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and would be used to identify potential sites and construct five stores, one in each borough.

Let’s call this what it is: political malpractice on a breathtaking scale. This isn’t just a misguided policy; it is a profound betrayal of the public trust. With this single, absurd proposal, Mayor Mamdani proves he has no grasp of reality, no respect for the taxpayer, and is determined to accelerate New York City’s decline.

A Recipe for Financial Disaster

The sheer audacity of this plan is something to behold. The city is staring down a $5.4 billion budget hole—a financial crisis by any measure. So with that massive deficit looming, what’s the mayor’s brilliant idea? Threaten you with a 10 percent property tax hike while he plays fantasy urban planner with $70 million of your money.

Any responsible family knows that when you’re broke, you cut up the credit cards. You don’t go on a shopping spree for things you don’t need and can’t afford. Yet here is the mayor, grabbing a taxpayer-funded excavator to dig the city’s financial grave even deeper, all for a bureaucratic pet project that is destined to fail.

History Proves This Will Fail

You don’t need to be a psychic to see how this movie ends. We’ve all seen it before. The last time a city tried this—in Kansas City, Missouri—the project devolved into a fetid swamp of bureaucratic incompetence, with rotten food and empty shelves. It was a predictable disaster.

Why? Because a grocery store is a tough, low-margin business that requires relentless efficiency. A government agency, choked by red tape and completely insulated from the consequences of failure, is the single worst entity you could choose for the job. Mamdani has offered no coherent plan for how these stores would actually run, because no such plan exists. This is not a serious proposal; it’s a taxpayer-funded train wreck.

The Socialist Grocer on the Corner

Don’t fall for the sanitized language. “Public option” is just focus-group-tested slang for “socialism.” The goal, as always, is to have the government control the means of production—in this case, your dinner. By creating state-run stores that are exempt from the taxes and rent that every other small business has to pay, the mayor is rigging the game against the very entrepreneurs who keep the city alive.

This isn’t about providing food. This is about ideology. It’s about a deep-seated desire to replace the dynamism of the free market with the dead hand of state control. It is a fundamental attack on the American way of life, disguised as a neighborhood grocery.

This isn’t about feeding the hungry; it’s about a hunger for power. And if citizens don’t wake up, it’s the city itself that will be devoured by these radical, fiscally insane experiments.

Key Takeaways

• NYC’s mayor is pushing a $70M project while the city faces a massive deficit.
• History proves that government-run grocery stores are a recipe for wasteful failure.
• This “public option” is a deliberate step toward replacing free enterprise with socialism.
• This isn’t about food; it’s a fiscally reckless, ideological power grab by the left.

Sources: The Post Millennial