Seattle city council votes to severely restrict ride-sharing aps.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by lvoc

A CDL license and a criminal check are required for cab drivers.

A CDL or is it some specific license for driving a taxi? Not sure what that accomplishes other than putting more money in the states pocket. About the only benefit there is a yearly medical exam.

[GregW]

The taxi industry in most large urban areas are prime examples of privately owned businesses using the government to stifle competition by limiting the access to the market for individuals and other companies. These fake free marketers also use the government of NYC to prevent direct mass transit connections to at least tow of the three major airports in the area. to get from Kennedy International to Manhattan requires either a taxi or a rented car. Very few know the combination of surfaces busses and subways that will get you the center of the city. This is corporate socialism at its best.

This LIBERAL has no problem with free markets but I have a huge problem with businesses that use the government to corrupt markets for their private profits.

[GaLineman]

Originally Posted by lvoc

The car checks for "for hire" vehicles are often different. In NV car checks are only smog.

A CDL license and a criminal check are required for cab drivers. I would also look for a basic knowledge of the city and how to navigate through it.

There are unions in the LV cab driver scene but they are pretty much completely ineffective.

I would not say they are ineffective. They kept both The Deuce and the LV Monorail out of McCarran didn't they?

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by GaLineman

I would not say they are ineffective. They kept both The Deuce and the LV Monorail out of McCarran didn't they?

Actually no. The taxi owners may have had some impact but not the taxi unions.

The monorail was never targeted at the airport. And it was kept off the strip by the casino owners. And the monorail was done without public funds. It is only in hindsight that everyone agrees it had to go to the airport to be successful.

The deuce is simply another bus. You can get to and from the airport by bus. Just not very practical...no ground transport which uses the strip roads is ever going to work. May get better when the robocabs arrive.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

I'm sorry-- But because the taxi industry did something you don't like, they don't become a government agency.

Command Groups in the Command Economic System are not required to be government.

The government is most often the Command Group that sets prices and quotas, but it may be any non-governmental organization or oligarchy.

A good example would be the American Hospital Association which is dictated prices and quotas in healthcare for the last 80+ years, which is why all Americans pay more than they would pay under Free Market operations.

Dairy Farmers of America Inc. and related companies have agreed to pay $158.6 million to settle claims that they fixed the price of milk.

Dairy Farmers of America joins $158.6M milk price fixing settlement - Kansas City Business Journal

That's another example of a Soviet-style Command Group fixing prices, just like the American Hospital Association has done for the last 80+ years.

The difference here is Constitutional.

Dairy is Interstate Commerce, and the FTC has been granted the powers in accordance with the US Constitution to investigate and punish those who would rape Americans of their money.

Healthcare is intra-State Commerce, thus the FTC has no power or authority to stop the American Hospital Association and its monopolistic practices of price-fixing and price-gouging, so Americans pay more for healthcare, because the Left-Wing continually blocks Free Market reforms.

Originally Posted by mlassoff

They are regulated, yes. Just like any one who provides transport... but they are not quasi-public-- They are private.

Not when they insert themselves into the affairs of government....they are no longer private, since they are now functioning as a non-governmental organization, which was not elected by the people.

Originally Posted by mlassoff

And they acted just like any other private business: They put the needs of the business before the good of the community. Shocking.

That claim is unsupported without financial evidence.

Originally Posted by katzpaw

It's not a Democrat/Republican divide. Taxis are regulated in all cities -even blue cities.

That's a Red Herring. The thread is not about taxi regulations in other cities.

Originally Posted by GaLineman

How are they going to enforce that?

US Police State Ver. 3.12 with Corrupt City Council add-on and Sadistic Violent Cop plug-in**.



**The Corrupt Cop driver and Donut-Eating Cop driver should be updated frequently. US military vehicles and equipment sold separately. See Department of Homeland Security for details. Void if city residents are too intelligent. If protests or demonstrations persist, consult with NSA for more Constitutional violations. Good-Cop/Bad-Cop app not included.

Originally Posted by GregW

The taxi industry in most large urban areas are prime examples of privately owned businesses using the government to stifle competition by limiting the access to the market for individuals and other companies.

Excellent summation. That is unfortunately exactly what happens in many urban areas.

Ride-sharing...

Mircea