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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I guess my question to you is where do you see the benefits coming from?
Empire Co (owner of Safeway and Sobeys) had sales of $31.4 billion and profits of $700 MM in the trailing twelve month period. So if your baseline is the government coule be as efficient as the private sector and could operate with zero profits you could drop food prices 2.2%.
Of course, they've invested ~$12 billion in property, plant and equipment to get that result, so to duplicate the real estate base you have to spend all that money first (and probably much more - not that likely their real estate has gone down in value...)
If you just want to subsidize people with tax dollars you can do that, but then why spend tens of billions setting up infrastructure - just use direct deposit.
And of course, the government isn't going to do all those bad things to boost profits, so the savings will be smaller. Then you have the cost of bureaucratic oversight and less aggressively negotiated labour contracts. Hard to see there being any savings at all.
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For starters, a government run grocery store could implement the policy that France uses to not throw away expiring food but rather to donate it. The former policy exists to artificially deflate supply.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Sorry NDP. you are going to have to stay dead for the next few elections so we can unite the left.
After watching the deplorable moron on his trumplike press conference today the orange will have to make the sacrifice to save Canada.
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I would not call the LPC part of the left at this point. They have been pushing right-leaning policy since trudeau left and the elections occured.
They only appear "left" because your frame of reference is the fascist CPC, but that's exactly why "uniting" the "left" is inherently problematic. We don't need to be a two party state where the options are far right and right. That's how you get the USA