{"id":12173,"date":"2023-11-11T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2023-11-11T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:56:52","slug":"government-run-grocery-store-is-predictably-losing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12173","title":{"rendered":"Government-Run Grocery Store Is Predictably Losing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Grocery store chains don&#8217;t have some anti-Chicago bias. If the people in charge of the city made those neighborhoods safe and economical places to do business, groceries would be as plentiful as they are anywhere else in America. Reducing Chicago&#8217;s high crime rate would surely help, though that&#8217;s admittedly a long-term project. But there is something city officials could do almost overnight: Reduce Chicago&#8217;s commercial property tax rates, which are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/chicago-has-2nd-highest-commercial-property-taxes-in-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some of the highest in the country<\/a>, or the city&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/chicago-ranks-no-2-in-the-nation-for-combined-state-and-local-sales-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high sales taxes<\/a>&nbsp;that incentivize consumers (the ones who can, anyway) to do their shopping outside the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At best, a government-run grocery store is merely addressing the symptoms, not the underlying problems plaguing Chicago\u2014and it seems unlikely to improve the symptoms, for that matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4U6zvoRsZ0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/23\/government-run-grocery-store-is-predictably-losing-money\/\">Government-Run Grocery Store Is Predictably Losing Money<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Government-Run Grocery Store Is Predictably Losing Money&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/23\/government-run-grocery-store-is-predictably-losing-money\/embed\/#?secret=MitE0HUl2W#?secret=4U6zvoRsZ0\" data-secret=\"4U6zvoRsZ0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grocery store chains don&#8217;t have some anti-Chicago bias. If the people in charge of the city made those neighborhoods safe and economical places to do business, groceries would be as plentiful as they are anywhere else in America. Reducing Chicago&#8217;s high crime rate would surely help, though that&#8217;s admittedly a long-term project. But there is something city officials could do almost overnight: Reduce Chicago&#8217;s commercial property tax rates, which are some of the highest in the country, or the city&#8217;s high sales taxes that incentivize consumers (the ones who can, anyway) to do their shopping outside the city.<br \/>\nAt best, a government-run grocery store is merely addressing the symptoms, not the underlying problems plaguing Chicago\u2014and it seems unlikely to improve the symptoms, for that matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/10\/23\/government-run-grocery-store-is-predictably-losing-money\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[167,1469,1529],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-government","tag-government-intervention","tag-grocery-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12174,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions\/12174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}