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Ted Cruz: “Government run grocery stores have empty shelves.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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By the way, the media is not going to show you the empty shelves, but they're going to run out. Yeah. And by the way, you see that in the Soviet Union, you see that in communist countries where the Government run grocery stores have empty shelves. Because it turns out government planners are not very good at deciding and figuring out what people want. And so if bananas are 30% cheaper at the government run grocery store, they're going to run out of bananas. (13:50–13:55)

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Asserts that government-run grocery stores often have empty shelves.

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