You would think this teaches someone something.
In Kansas City, the month after it closed its government-run grocery store because it turned into a disaster/fiasco/non-starter…
…it has now ended its policy of free buses.
Why? From Gabrielle Fahmy’s article for the New York Post:
Kansas City’s $50 million experiment with free bus fare is hitting the brakes — because the city can no longer afford it.
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist proposals — including free buses in the five boroughs and Soviet-style, city-owned grocery stores — are now 0-2 when tried elsewhere, after Kansas City’s own venture with a government-run grocery abruptly closed earlier this month.
The Midwest city used federal COVID-19 relief money in 2020 to become the first in the country to institute free buses.
But local funding dried up, and riders and conductors slammed the buses as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters, something critics say could easily happen in Gotham.
Anyone think this will make Democrat candidate (and probable winner if the split alternative vote stands) zohran mamdani think twice about his brilliant promise of government supermarkets and “free” transportation (note to mamdani: “free” isn’t free. SOMEONE pays for those buses)?
The answer, of course is a near-100% probability of no it won’t.
If mamdani has not learned that socialism doesn’t work yet, I doubt this will change his mind.
I will end with a note to the voters of New York City: this is what you want?
Well, if so, vote him in and enjoy every second of it.
Then watch the companies and individuals most able to escape this insanity move out, and leave someone else with the bill.
Guess who?
