Where The Free Market Helps The Little Guy

Yesterday The American Thinker posted an article about the future of Uber and Lyft in New York City. New York’s socialist mayor, Bill de Blasio, has decided that on Tuesday he will move to limit the number of Ubers and Lyfts in New York. If you have ever tried to get a cab in New York City, this is not good news.

The article concludes with the real purpose of the move to limit Uber and Lyft:

What’s more, the bulletin boards of New York are rife with talk of what this really looks like, which is a bid to raise the value of taxi medallions, which the city profits from, and which well-connected political cronies get their hands on. (Such as President Trump’s now-ex lawyer, Michael Cohen, a medallion owner whose net worth should rise.) New Yorkers know that’s always been a corrupt racket.

Quite an achievement for a socialist champion of the little guy, taking away their taxis in the rain. Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg only went after their salt shakers on their diner tables. This guy goes after their transport. Which shows the rest of us again what happens under socialism.

You’ve got to hope they’ll finally get ‘woke’ and start protesting the heck against him, because obviously de Blasio has dismissed the interests of New York’s ever-stressed working class and has just handed them a s– sandwich.

The people who own the medallions will make money and the people trying to find a way to get to Brooklyn will be out of luck.

Allowing Uber and Lyft to operate freely in New York City would provide needed transportation for people as well as possibly keep cab fares from rising totally out of control. That would be the free market at work.