So high-tech service is intrinsically evil?
Just trying to follow the logic here.
OK. Not really.
Hey, ho, Microsoft has got to go! Washington doesn't need the tax revenue, does it?
To the unions, yes. This is a classic case of a new technology making some older way of doing things obsolete. The socialist knee-jerk is to crush the innovation and institutionally protect the "workers".
I hope Seattle passes everything that this bozo wants. They deserve it.
“Because rideshare companies use high-tech service to lure customers away from taxis, councilmember Sawant says the city should step in.”
I thought luring away business (by attractive offers) was called competition. It is a good thing.
Of course, once taxi service is socialized, it will be illegal to lure away customers by offering them better. As any good economist will tell you, when there is a monopoly, the monopolist will do as little for as possible, and charge as much as he thinks that he can. Prices rise, and service declines, or becomes scarce if prices are fixed. For now, I won’t even mention the potential — nay, the certainty — for corruption which characterizes state-run monopolies.
Having the government run services is not a “bold” suggestion: it is a proposal to adopt a policy which has failed throughout history.
My opinion of Seattle has suffered a fatal blow. How can people elect a jerk who would suggest such a thin? She belongs in Bangladesh, because I don’t think that even her home country (India) would want he back..