In 2013, a taxi medallion, the license required to drive a taxi in a city, costs $250,000 per taxi. On quarter of a million in tax revenue per taxi into the hands of city politicians.
LIft and Uber have caused that price to fall to just $150,000 per medallion in 2018.
Ride share apps are a serious impact on city politicians' gravy train.
Yep, just like e-cigarettes. People are turning to those because of health and money reasons. With all the taxation on cigarettes, it's much cheaper to vape.
As much as these leftist politicians preach against smoking, when less cookies are in the cookie jar, they want to know who's responsible and rightfully punish them.
So now they launched a campaign on how dangerous vaping is. Some places are outlawing vaping in public places. They never wanted anybody to quit smoking, they just wanted to take advantage of those who do.