People vote their pocketbook. So how do you regain just some of those voters? GOP outreach to minorities is near nil. Yet, the big city policies of unionism, licensing and permitting coupled with the fly-paper economics of the welfare system are the KKKs dream policy.
They target the poor and minorities. Undoing them is a winning ticket. Why should you need a half million dollars to drive taxicab?
Until the GOP gets the guts and long term strategy to regain the urban vote we’ll continue to struggle to win national and statewide elections.
For conservatives it will mean expanding our tent to hold some pols like Giuliani. He’s the type of Republican urbanites can tolerate. We need one in the top ten biggest cities in America. Our bench is empty.
GOP: "This medicine may taste bad at first, but it's good for you in the long run."
Rats: "Here ya go - - free stuff!"
Yeah, the GOP needs a better strategy.
Over time the medallions have become worth more and more, and certainly you could eliminate them ~ leaving an awful lot of cab drivers very angry at you, and residual elements of the Sicilian mob, and current Jamaican crews, and Dominican gangs ready to move in and start up killing cabbies so they can make room for their buddies/members.
The medallion system only looks evil ~ the replacement is undoubtedly evil.