>What they never were, was "the underdog fighting taxi mafia". The only people who ever fight mafias, are up-and-coming crime syndicates themselves. I wonder

>What they never were, was "the underdog fighting taxi mafia". The only people who ever fight mafias, are up-and-coming crime syndicates themselves. I wonder if a state could cap their cut of the fare to say, $1. Index it to CPI every 3 years, so they don't have future legislators itching to bump that number up so often. Would this be fought out in courts, by secret meeting lobbyists, or would they just add a bunch of fees to it in such a way that it becomes opaque again (the fees could be paid by the driver, for instance, so it's totally under the radar of any customers/passengers)?