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Originally Posted by Wolven
No, you cut off the second half of my sentence.
"I think a big thing people will always fail to consider with the idea of a public grocer is that even if we each are contributing $500 in tax dollars to make it happen, it is worth it if we end up saving any number that is more than $500 of post tax money when buying groceries."
You can replace "500" with whatever number you want. I think most people understand that spending pre-tax dollars to save post-tax dollars is a win. If we can stop the cost of groceries from continuing to skyrocket in cost then that is a win. If we can reduce the cost of groceries, then that is a huge win.
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I guess you separately came up with (what I would consider reasoable) estimates of the costs and benefits as $500 and $50 respectively, and then said that as long as the benefits exceed the costs we're good.
There's no situation where people save more than $500 on groceries per person from the system with a subsidy of only $500 per person - there isn't enough profit in the system that can be eliminated.