Billy Binion
This is a bad analogy. State-run liquor stores came out of Prohibition—because governments wanted drinking to be difficult and expensive after alcohol was legalized again. Using that as a model for food isn’t exactly reassuring.
Ben Burgis
Seventeen US states have public *monoplies* on liquor stores. If that doesn’t prompt these hysterical unhinged Cuba analogies, neither should Zohran’s plan to experiment with a public *option* for grocery stores in a few of the most privately underserved neighborhoods.