How does the left justify keeping Walmart out of New York City when it welcomes Mamdani Marts?<\/p>\n
That question is at the center of a lawsuit the Multicultural Business Coalition filed in state court<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n The group (repping the interests of small, largely minority store owners) also filed a class-action suit alleging civil-rights violations if the city-owned-groceries plan goes forward.<\/p>\n Both cases call out the hypocrisy of the left around Gotham\u2019s small business owners \u2014 and the ugly, absurd truth of the whole Mamdani-Mart project.\u00a0<\/p>\n Progs have long worked to keep Walmart out<\/a> by arguing that the little guys couldn\u2019t compete against the massive price discounts the chain has the scale to offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yet steep price discounts, 30% on \u201ccore goods,\u201d are the central justification for Mamdani\u2019s insane plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Funny: The left sees those discounts as not just good but vital to \u201caffordability\u201d \u2014 but it\u2019s worked for decades to block them if it means letting a free-market competitor set up shop.<\/p>\n Somehow, it\u2019s OK if it\u2019s not Big Business but Big Brother?<\/p>\n Yes: Progressives viscerally detest private enterprise, especially when it\u2019s run by and caters to the folks<\/a> \u2014 lower-income, minority \u2014 the left claims to care for most.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n No wonder it\u2019s so brutally difficult to open a small business in this town, a burden made even harsher by endless fines and fees like Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s \u201ccongestion\u201d tolls.<\/p>\n Decades of progressive rule on housing, taxation, workplace regulation and on and on are the true source of New York\u2019s affordability crisis.<\/p>\n Of course, the injustices flagged by these lawsuits are just the latest contradictions<\/a> within Mamdani\u2019s still-incoherent scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ironically enough, the main achievement of the mayor\u2019s \u201ccity-owned grocery\u201d initiative turns out to be exposing the idiocy of his entire ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the left justify keeping Walmart out of New York City when it welcomes Mamdani Marts? That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[275,304,2850,9,24,55,54,56,299,2990,9936,14599,82],"class_list":["post-328866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bodega","tag-editorial","tag-lawsuits","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-small-business","tag-supermarkets","tag-walmart","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}