Mamdani

[jon-nyc]

Oops.

(I know we’ve been talking about him in the Cuomo thread, but I thought I’d give him his own)

[LuFins Dad]

Government run businesses are GREAT ideas…

[Horace]

Darn now he has an excuse not to do it. I really wanted to see how that worked out.

[Mik]

Yep. Sometimes the way to win is give them what they want and watch it crash and burn.

[Doctor Phibes]

In Ontario they had state run liquor stores - they presumably still do. While not actually as bad as you might imagine, they certainly didn't keep the prices down.

[Mik]

They have them in Ohio and Pennsylvania too, although in Ohio they privatized them and opened a lot more of them. Pennsylvania is still very restrictive. The key there is they may be crooked but they're the only game in town.

[jon-nyc]

In fairness it’s not a great analogy. The state didn’t start liquor stores to being cheaper liquor to all, it was a moralistic prohibition-era hangover. So to speak.

His idea is stupid for entirely different reasons.

[Horace]

It would have been interesting to see how the socialized supermarkets dealt with shoplifters. The politicians who started the stores are the same ones who barely think shoplifting should be a crime.

[LuFins Dad]

@Horace said in Mamdani:

It would have been interesting to see how the socialized supermarkets dealt with shoplifters. The politicians who started the stores are the same ones who barely think shoplifting should be a crime.

Well, they wouldn’t have any police to enforce the laws even if they decided to…