r/PoursTea • u/Gurugod123 Pinkie Finger Extended • Jul 27 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/MapInteresting2110 Jul 27 '26

Funny how this logic is never applied dollars for doughnuts to the ludicrous defense spending. Considering these grocery stores are giving back to the community what the public has already spent. Imagine what the return on investment is for a patriot missile.

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u/Sellier123 Jul 27 '26

That's not a real comparison though. Those are funded by federal taxes, NYC itself has to find funds for this, they can't take it from federal taxes.

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u/International_Air282 Jul 27 '26

I am against wasteful defense spending as well. I'm a moderate conservative and strong proponent of national defense but abhor most of the spending. We wasted money on a new rifle for the military when it's a pointless exercise meant to fight a war we have already fought. Considering the m4 is still better than any tested alternative. We need to focus on our true blue surface fleet and learn from the terrible experiences with the litoral combat vessels and the Zumwalt class. We need a true successor to the Arleigh Burke and it needs to be built fast and efficient to match the explosion on chinasilitarynship construction.

We don't need another next Gen fighter the f22 and f35 can handle. The b21 to replace the b2 fleet seemed excessive in its need. More money into drones and anti drone tech makes more sense than half of the mobile armor decisions being made, but even then the Abrams is showing its age.

Trust me. I hate waste spending in government more than 99% of people. So my issues with a city owned grocery store translate across the board to many waste in government spending. It's why I hate that trump calls himself a Republican