We’re literally paying tax dollars to make getting a ride more difficult and more expensive.

Excellent short piece.  From Taxpayer funded uber shortages: how worker welfare works against the general welfare by El Gato Malo.  

I agree 100%. this is a simple, testable hypothesis. so make a mental note and pay attention to the places where this happens.  I’ll wager you’re going to see this play out just as the theory predicts.

This will validate one simple thing: we’re literally paying tax dollars to make getting a ride more difficult and more expensive.

You’re paying to inconvenience yourself and stop the economy from adapting and recovering as it should.

 Coincides with a friend's argument which he has been making for a number of years - no matter what the States declared justification for a program or policy, the outcome is always to make life more expensive and harder for ordinary citizens.  

Read the whole thing.  I did like his illustration to the piece.

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