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Don't you love how Marxists champion the proletariat while living like the bourgeoisie?
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Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's social media solidarity with taxi drivers appeared to be undermined by a recent revelation about her own campaign's spending.
In March, a taxi cab driver in New York City unfortunately took his own life after falling on financial hardship. New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber tweeted a statement that blamed the driver's death on the existence of Uber and Lyft. Referencing the city government's allowance of the ride-sharing companies, the statement argued that "anti-regulation zealotry came at the expense of professional drivers." Ocasio-Cortez quoted that tweet and criticized the "unregulated expansion of Uber."
Despite the Twitter comment, campaign spending reports from the Federal Election Commission indicate that her words only go so far. Fox News found that the Ocasio-Cortez campaign not only spent thousands on Uber rides, but also on a local ride-sharing service called Juno, between the months of April and June. The campaign spent nearly $4,000 on 160 Uber rides and $2,500 on over 90 Juno rides.
Socialist Barbie is too cute and too stupid to get very mad at. Fun to point out her hypocrisy but then, liberals don't mind being completely hypocritical....they live their lives that way.
Maybe if taxi companies weren't ****, Uber and other ride-sharing companies would never have flourished.
Boohoohoo, I can't rest on my laurels being a part of a shoddy cartel, make the big mean competitors go away!
Well "the big mean companies" only exist because they decided to be their own big shoddy cartel that ignored laws in order to implement a business model that they knew would get too big too fast to stop.
I like how the guy called it "anti-regulation zealotry"...because no sane and rational person would would be against competition and cheaper prices, right? We should be grateful that our options are reduced to an expensive crony business. It's for our safety you know.
I'm a liberal and I love Uber. I mean - press a button and a car is there in 3 minutes.
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