NYC mayoral hopeful pledges to lower grocery prices by implementing communism

One of the loony Democrats running for mayor in New York City has pledged to lower prices by basically implementing communism.

His name is Zohran Mamdani, and he’s out there, so much so that he’s proposed city-run grocery stores on the basis that removing profits from the equation would magically resolve price and supply chain issues.

“This is an opportunity to show what the price could actually be if we were being honest about supply chain issues, honest about the impact of profits as part of this equation,” he told The New Republic in March.

The socialist candidate for mayor even made a video promoting his idea:

Zohran Mamdani: As mayor, I will lower prices by making stores owned by the government pic.twitter.com/JAiBcggiiU

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 19, 2025

“Everywhere I go, I hear New Yorkers talking about the outrageous prices of groceries. This is a bold and workable plan,” he said of his idea in a separate interview with The New York Times.

“If we want to bring these New Yorkers back to the Democratic Party, then we have to show them that we’re serious about making their life more affordable,” he added.

Mamdani doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down months later in an interview earlier this month with Spectrum News, this time calling for rent control, free busing, and even free childcare.

He’s also started championing the equally absurd idea of removing the police from high-crime areas and replacing them with unarmed social workers:

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani thinks the NYPD should be removed specifically from high-crime areas.

He says that’s as mayor, he’d replace cops with social workers—and turn the subway into a network of homeless shelters.

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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 11, 2025

Mamdani’s ideas are so radical and expensive that they’ve prompted criticism and pushback from surprising places, including from the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul.

“To fund his vision, the state legislator wants to conjure up $10 billion in new revenue through higher taxes on businesses and wealthy New Yorkers,” Politico notes. “The governor, a moderate Democrat, has expressed steadfast opposition to hiking taxes on high-income earners.”

“She will be facing reelection next year too, just as Mamdani would need her blessing to begin accomplishing his goals during his first year in office — adverse conditions that stand to imperil nearly half of the state assemblymember’s $10 billion bonanza,” the reporting continues.

It doesn’t help his case that he’s reportedly underestimated the cost of all his radical proposals.

“He articulates his points very well, and they make sense. You understand exactly what he’s saying,” former New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, claimed. “The problem is: Nobody told him there’s no such thing as Santa Claus.”

Well, he is a commi, after all …

Not to mention an antisemite:

Islamists conquered London & many other cities in UK including some in U.S. so why not NYC? Islamist cancer is growing faster than weeds!
Zohran Mamdani is worst of the worst! He is not only radical communist but fanatical Islamist who doesn’t believe in Israel’s right to exist! https://t.co/VJN9ikYwX6 pic.twitter.com/q58BZ4xG3y

— Hank (@HankishTwitZone) May 31, 2025

Also, to push his proposals through, Mamdani would also need support of the state’s legislators in Albany.

“[H]e would need to convince Albany to significantly expand the city’s debt capacity and green-light free buses, in addition to passing the tax hikes necessary to realize his most buzz-generating visions,” Politico notes.

FYI, his “vision” also includes an outrageous $30 minimum wage.

In the world’s richest city, making the minimum wage shouldn’t mean living in poverty.

As Mayor, I’ll work with City Council to raise the wage floor to $30/hour by 2030.

When working people have more money in their pocket, the whole economy thrives. pic.twitter.com/RPHUhKdfmU

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) February 13, 2025

Yet equally loopy former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio thinks it’s all doable, especially the part that involves hiking taxes on everybody.

“The difference now is the millionaires and billionaires have gotten massive tax cuts since the first term [of President Donald Trump], and they are about to get even more,” he told Politico.

“So calling for higher taxes on the wealthy is an entirely different enterprise now than it was in 2014,” he added.

De Blasio famously proposed using a tax on the wealthy to pay for the city’s universal prekindergarten.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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