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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
This is hilarious, in the normal course of a free market there should be no question or impediments to Uber entering a market. No lame "bylaw" restrictions or concerns over "safety". Have there been a huge number of safety issues with Uber or something? Sounds like bs to me.
It's so painfully obvious that lobbying, government greasing and the profitable protection of a few is withholding a better product from entering a market and making things better for the many. This is exactly why I hate lobbying and why it should be illegal to lobby. No different than bribery.
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In this case it goes further. In Calgary, they have created a restricted, regulated system to the point that, being able to own a taxi license is a privlege that on the open market costs over $100K. The way I see it, they don't want to reduce the value of those licenses to zero and make the purchasers suckers of the city's own ill-conceived system.