This is a terrible business approach. It's just begging for crusader retaliation from legislators and district attorneys - exactly the sort of negative relation

This is a terrible business approach. It's just begging for crusader retaliation from legislators and district attorneys - exactly the sort of negative relationship that Uber needs to avoid. Acting "above the law" makes the people who represent the law WANT to cut you down to size. Uber's success may make its founders arrogant enough to think they're too big to mess with. They've been fighting municipal governments so far, not Washington. Washington crushes entire countries.