NYC Taxi Cartel Wants Bailout After UberBy Reason TV The average number of trips taken in a cab each day has fallen and average farebox revenue has fallen. Taxi garages are jammed with parked cabs because they cant find enough drivers to hire. Theyd all rather go work for Uber. It really is remarkable how these monopolies that couldnt be broken for decades were broken so quickly, says Barro, but I think its because of Uber moving first and saying, were going show people how this thing can be different, and then well have the fight over whether we want that different thing or not.' Related Article: New Yorks Taxi Cartel Is Collapsing. Now They Want A Bailout. All small business is under assault. Sabotaging parking, access, etc.. The more you look, the more instruments youll find to undermine small business in America. Export the jobs, eliminate small business as much as possible. This too is UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development. Screw them and their smelly cabs with rude drivers! This video by pro-Uber Reason, once again, is full of misunderstandings and spin. The video starts off with a double standard. The video suggests that it is an ostentatious display for some NYC taxi boss to have Niki Menage perform at his sons Baht Mitzvah. I guess only the great Kalanick (Uber CEO) can display wealth. If somebody from the taxi industry does it, then that means they are bad. Again we see the attacks on the medallion system. Misunderstandings about the medallion system are the norm. The medallion system does two things. It controls the number of taxicabs in a given city and it allows for profit sharing within the industry. The medallion system has been a great source of middle-class wealth over the years. Where is the profit sharing at Uber? There is none. Uber gives us slaves and lords ONLY. Any extra consumer costs (its doubtful that there are any) due to the medallion system are there TO SUPPORT A MIDDLE CLASS. Driving a taxicab properly is SKILLED LABOR and should be encouraged by providing for an industry that adequately rewards its long time workers. How many times does an angry looking taxicab driver need to be shown? How many times do the authors of this piece need to directly quote Ubers propaganda by using the terms medallion cartel and taxicab monopoly? Listen, the medallion cartel is not the taxicab companies. The medallion cartel is your local City government. As far as the monopoly claims go; I dont know about your city, but here in San Francisco, there are about 30 cab companies. How is that a monopoly? In the video, some ignorant person talks about how the taxicab industry has been broken. This guy needs to take a look at all the outstanding lawsuits against Uber and couple that with the fact that their track record in courts around the world is abysmal. Uber has not shown us jack squat and this is far from over. Uber will be completely vanquished. All Uber did was front-run the taxi industry. Smartphone applications used in the public passenger vehicle for hire business should only be used to enhance taxicabs, but Uber and all their venture capital money came in like an unnecessary flood. We were going about integrating this technology before we were so rudely interrupted. In fact, if the San Francisco city government put out an adequate number of cabs and created an official city of San Francisco taxicab dispatch application, there would be no demand for any of this. Best practices are embodied in TAXICABS. The only reason why we are messing around with anything else is Ubers mountain of cash. This is irresponsible behavior by our governments. If you can believe it; our politicians have been bought. Watch out now, but Uber is just another crony capitalist phenomenon. That feisty little startup narrative was bunk two times. Theyve been hooked into the establishment all along. Uber is part and parcel of the establishment. Uber is here to conquer and consolidate taxicab industries worldwide under a business model that provides them with all of the benefits and none of the responsibilities. Uber is wholly unnecessary and a negative for our quality of life. All theyve gotten so far are political victories. Uber needs to be repudiated in American courts of law. 