State of Monday: YOU NEED ID FOR THIS SOCIALIST UTOPIA
Do these people hear themselves?
Greetings, Dear Reader,
She hasn’t popped yet! I’ll let you all know when I’ll be out for the birth of my third. Until then … ONWARD!
YOU NEED ID FOR THIS SOCIALIST UTOPIA
At the risk of inflaming your PTSD, remember vaccine cards?
They were little cards issued by Pfizer or Moderna that in combination with state identification would allow you to enter a Burger King to place an order without getting viciously arrested in various tolerant liberal enclaves that had criminalized walks in the park at the time.
It’s been a few years since the cultural zenith of so-called “vaccine passports” and now a new version has arrived: Socialist Utopia Passports.
A reporter asked NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani how he planned to prevent fraud from hitting his new government grocery stores.
“How are you going to prevent people from taking advantage of that, uh, you know, that deal basically and is there going to be a limit of items someone can take that are discounted at the level from that essential basket?”
Let me do as my mantra says and strip the euphemism off this question, because it’s dripping in it.
Firstly: around 10-15% of NYC’s yearly food stamp budget is wasted on fraud, or roughly $500-700 million a year (it’s likely even higher). That’s both people fraudulently collecting benefits, but also people who sell their cards, buy and resell items for cash, so on.
In a capitalist society, when the government intends to sell necessary items 30% below the market rate, basically everyone with a pair of hands is going to rush the aisles to buy up and resell the items on the market (at the market rate) in order to make a buck.
That’s if you don’t roll out the grocery stores with a strict regulatory regime paired up with a beefy police presence!
Secondly: What’s to prevent out-of-towners and wealthy people from simply exploiting the program?
“So our RFP makes very clear that this is a program for New Yorkers to be able put food on the table not a program for people to make a quick buck through reselling,” said Mamdani, before calling up his socialist grocery store czar, Julie Su, New York City’s deputy mayor for “Economic Justice.”
“We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether that’s through a library-card-esque [situation] and also we manage who’s buying and it’s focused on every day New Yorkers,” Su said. “So we are mindful of that and so we are going to make sure we have all the things in place so that does not happen.”
Oooookay, that’s a lot.
In other words, they have to make sure the people participating are actually poor (“everyday New Yorkers”), are actually “New Yorkers,” and they have to maintain a regulatory regime that prevents those people from ripping them off.
Sounds expensive!
It also sounds like you’ll need ID to enter a heavily policed Socialist Utopia.
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Makes sense.
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I thought ID's were racist. Guess it depends on who wants to use the ID's and for what purpose.