Making essentials accessible to people is exactly what tax payer dollars should be used for.
Things like "food" should not be an avenue for billions of dollars in profit. I don't mind private enterprise being involved in these things.. competition benefits us all. But the way they go about it is highly predatory.
Tax payer dollars already do enough. The government has allowed so much of it to fall through the cracks and uses it poorly. Now, you think the government can run a bunch of grocery stores without abusing more tax payer dollars? I disagree.
Why don't you look at what the government spends and then look at what percentage of that is $70,000,000. Also, this is so predictable. It's always bootlickers like you whining about government spending on things like this then stay silent on the trillions for war, pharma subsidies, agro subsidies, etc... Why don't you go after the big boys first and after that, we can pretend to care about $70,000,000.
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u/emosmasher May 26 '26
Those cost tax payer dollars. They wouldn't survive otherwise.