You want to spend $1 BILLION dollars subsidizing new grocery stores?
It’ll make poor people healthier? No, they’ll still spend their food stamps on Pringles and Fruit Roll Ups. It’ll create good jobs? No, it’ll create shitty minimum wage jobs.
Where’d I leave that republican party registration card?:rant:
I’d back it, but only as low interest loans for companies like Wegmans and tops to encourage building supermarkets in poor urban areas. I think it might help in many ways such as creating jobs and increasing property values, and so on…
I think it will fail.
It will be much harder to pawn off your food stamps for cash when everyone is only using food stamps.
I just don’t see how subsidizing retail does anyone any good. That’s like considering starting from the top of a hill a performance mod.
screw subsidizing, but low interest loans to entice building in low income areas can go a long way…
Hmm…if they need $500k in aid per store there’s a reason.
So, where are all these people getting their food now?
If it’s not at least a little profitable to run a store in the low rent districts, they should not be in low rent districts.
Although, it would be nice to see a 10% increase in property values when a $15,000 house sells for $16,500 because it’s next to a Wegmans.
I love how “fighting obesity” is the newest way to pull the wool over our eyes and allow the government to tax more and spend more.
i like food? and money.