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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: NYC Goes SOCIALIST, Bodega Owners: 'We're Becoming Communist State'
Description: New York City just elected a 30-something Democratic Socialist who's never run anything, and now he wants to open state-run grocery stores while doubling minimum wage to $30 an hour. What could go wrong? We've literally seen this playbook fail spectacularly - Kansas City's government grocery store collapsed in August after struggling with empty shelves and crime, costing taxpayers millions. Yet here we go again with the greatest hits: rent freezes, free buses, and city-owned everything. The bodega owners Mandani name-dropped in his victory speech? They're calling it the road to communism and they're not wrong. One owner perfectly summed...