Anonymous #1 1w

I mean, the government would just be doing what the grocers already do, buying and reselling food, just with a lower markup because the government doesn’t have a profit motive. The food shelves you’re describing are designed specifically to suck, because our government despises the poor. It’s the classic government move of “we half-assed this program, and it sucks, so clearly this entire type of program is stupid anyways”

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

It’s exactly like when the Reagan administration sabotaged public schools and the welfare system and then went “see? government funded stuff never works”

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

It’s THE neoliberal strategy to purposefully underfund public resources until they are dysfunctional, and then use the dysfunction they themselves caused to justify further cuts.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

Mark up? Isn’t the food free??? And there’s already co-op grocery stores that are not-for-profit 501(c)(3). A lot of people hate this but my church I go to gives me and other struggling students a gift card for a local grocery store. The food shelves suck because it’s donated food and usually it’s about to go bad. There is another not-for-profit grocery store/food shelf thing that gets all the sell by dates the next day from grocery stores. It’s still good and safe.

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Anonymous #1 1w

I don’t think they said the food at those places would be free, I was under the impression that his policy was to sell the food at or near cost, which most stores do not do because they’re trying to turn a profit.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

If you sell at cost, you’ll be negative in overhead. That’s why I thought it would be interesting though, because intrinsically they’d charge more in taxes and that would allow for the city ran grocery stores. That brings up another point is how do they allocate it properly if it’s free? You’d need to hire staff to gatekeep from all the glutens that would grab all the pizza rolls and Dino nuggets.

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