The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

    • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      -12 years ago

      Because it doesn’t…we subsidize farmers, so we don’t have a famine…we don’t subsidize farmers because of socialism or capitalism. It’s literally done as a fail safe. It’s the same reason we have metric tons of cheese on hand as well.

      • @Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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        42 years ago

        The idea that the government should provide such a failsafe against famine is an act of socialism. A purely capitalist approach to a famine is that the individual should be responsible for preparing their own means of surviving it, or perish in an act of economic Darwinism.