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> but I think someone needs to be thinking of the swaths of working people who are afraid of losing their jobs. Yet the government watches small businesses fai
by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> but I think someone needs to be thinking of the swaths of working people who are afraid of losing their jobs.
Yet the government watches small businesses fail all the time with nothing more than an offer of unemployment insurance.
Why should the government have a special care for taxis but no special care for a pizza parlor that goes under? Do they offer to retrain the workers with more advanced appliances?
In this case, it is merely the threat of competition! This is truly amazing.
- giaour 10y agoUnlike an individual pizza parlor, the taxi fleet in a given city plays an important role in policy planning. Public transit planning takes taxi service into account, and taxis are barred in many locales from refusing medically necessary transportation. Taxis have obligations that go above and beyond those imposed on a generic livery provider, and as such governments might be reluctant to let a few livery providers outcompete taxis into extinction.
- zaidf 10y agoIsn't that just kicking the can down the road? Wouldn't the government be better served revising the plan to take new innovation into account than instituting a tax purely to slow down innovation?
- threesixandnine 10y agoToo much work man.