> They're not trying to pull their usual "we're a special snowflake beyond regulation" stunt. Okay you need to understand that laws come with consequences. And

> They're not trying to pull their usual "we're a special snowflake beyond regulation" stunt. Okay you need to understand that laws come with consequences. And if the consequences are not sufficient to deter an action, then the law does not exist. Uber finds the consequences possible from state governments and smaller administrative authorities to be negligible. This is an accurate assessment generally due to predictable underfunded nature, deficits, lack of case law and lack of political will that these areas have. The federal government is not any of that and has unlimited resources to ensure compliance. It also provides the benefit of supplanting state law, good across the entire republic and helps with reciprocal agreements in other republics. So there are both adequate consequences for noncompliance and adequate benefits for compliance. State autonomy has been irrelevant since interstate commerce became the only form of commerce, and most of the time people are just playing along.