Taxi companies have special permits and plenty of restrictions e.g. (restrictions on coverage area, color of taxi, condition of taxi, location work restrictions, weight permits & Fees, commercial registration fees, taxi owner permit fees, taxi driver permit fees, & more). The taxi company must abide by the rules and regulations to provide service to its citizens. Now if the taxi company wishes to operate in any other cities, they will have to complete the same tasks, pay the fees again for that city as well as each city they wish to service.

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     Taxi companies have these restrictions & regulations to protect the citizens that ride. These laws were created over 100 years ago with many revised ordinances and amendments to the laws since then. We are the people, we are the US and we should care about our own citizens, kids’ parents’ sisters and brothers. Ride-Share Companies do the same exact service but do this in their own “private cars”. “No Restrictions and no permits”.  Taxicab Companies are being replaced by companies that offer the same service for 60% less money. Hello…. who is making money here…not the driver? How many people do you know that make Ride-Share a career? Ride-Share companies have taken more than 85% of all taxi business. These companies have made “billions” in just a few years. The companies are making profit and the drivers are not. The average time drivers stay at Ride-Share companies is only 3 months. The United States of America and its Government has allowed this to happen. That’s us!... People Wake UP!..  Big money and powerful people control our lives. They keep us so dammed busy we just don't have the time to think or even care about this issue. Big revenue taken….. and very little coming back to our communities. This is a huge problem. The billions in revenue should be spent in its own local economy.  

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    In years past companies like Yellow Cab, Checker Cab and hundreds of other taxicab companies have made this job not just a career but a way of life. Stereotyped as they are, cab drivers still undergo the intensive regulations and abide by those laws. Just like a restaurant has regulations by the health department and state, or a hair stylist must pay and apply for a tax permit “for each city they work in”. Ride-Share Companies cost so little to go from point A to point B it’s a no-brainer.

Here is the downside to Ride-Share. The economy is the worst hit and most of us won’t even notice for the first few years. With all the private cars replacing commercially registered taxis, “the loss of revenue to the local state's DMV is huge”. The local city tax revenue from all the lost taxi companies and taxi drivers is a huge loss of local city taxes. Ride-Share Drivers are not required to purchase tax permits unlike a taxi driver must purchase a tax permit in each city they work in. The revenue lost is huge and being sucked up by the Ride-Share Companies.

   The biggest scam in the world is total control of its people, allowing them to know this, and still control them, without them even caring.