Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“For today’s purposes, I’ll avoid the obvious Soviet breadline jokes and even ignore that — per the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney — Mamdani appears to have embarrassingly botched how the city would pay for his experiment. (Insert even more commie jokes here.) His eagerness to pursue the system once in office is also somewhat unclear. Yet the grocery proposal remains noteworthy both for its massive weaknesses and what it says about those still championing it today. In that sense, Mamdani’s grocery plan is a classic example of a statist hammer — and in this case sickle (sorry I couldn’t resist just one) — in search of a ‘market failure’ nail.” (07/10/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/state-run-supermarkets-bad-statist-solution-search-problem