Someone should as the Sanders campaign when they plan to stop using Uber.

Oooo...Bern!

The power of the free market - how do the awesome work?

Most cab drivers are bent-double under a sh*t-ton of regulation and/or enslaved to a cartel-based system (eg 'medallions' etc) that effectively limits just-about anything they do, including making money. When you're paying by the hour for the use of your cab, and being taxed and fee'd left and right for the privilege of driving it, but you know that you're part of a monopoly that ensures there are always too few cabs - what will the end result be? Cabs will be few and far between, and the service will be uniformly crappy.

Jeremias, by contrast, can work as much as he likes for the same fixed costs, and the more he works, or the more unsociable hours he works, the more he will make. He knows that the number of people who can drive for Uber is effectively limitless, so he needs to stand out from the crowd. If he's rude, or scruffy, or his cab is full of puke and churro crumbs, he's going to get bad reviews and less rides. He can't stiff the customer by any of the usual tricks that cabbies use. By contrast, if he does an awesome job and treats his customers right, he'll get rave reviews and lots and lots more business.

And that's how you get a cabbie who dresses like an executive, driving a cab that is absolutely spotless, who appears at any hour and will go anyplace you want, no matter what.

The free market. What a concept.

llater,

llamas

...whenever his campaign requires a taxi, they literally always turn to Uber.

Chances are the younger campaign workers are the ones using Uber while the older campaign workers, who are more closely tied to unions and the older Democratic Party power structure, use cabs.

Young people seem drawn to the empty promises of socialism. Perhaps while teaching them how to learn, our schools forgot to give them the facts about the worldwide failures of socialism and other collectivist systems.

This is gonna make me sound young or weird, I know, but I've actually never taken a taxi, only an Uber in two different cities, about 15 rides. And I have had good-great experiences in every single one. My favorite was in Dallas when the guy missed a turn (in his super sharp Lexus) so he proceeded to apologize and make it up to us by giving us the grand tour of the route where Kennedy was shot, complete with rolling down the windows on the parade route and letting out a "duck" when we got to the x in the road, then the trip to Parkland. It was awesome.

This sounds a lot like " no guns for you; but, my bodyguards need them to protect me."

I don't believe we've ever had such an important issue placed before the electorate.

Thank god we only have a year to go before we can start hating the next President.

Anytime the government want to take away my right to spend my money on what I want it is an important issue.

"Anytime the government want to take away my right to spend my money on what I want it is an important issue."

Jay, heroin and child prostitution are illegal for good reason.

Gog: "Jay, heroin and child prostitution are illegal for good reason."

Heroin; child prostitution; Uber.

Which one does not go with the other two?

I first used Uber in Manhattan when the weather was bad and getting where I wanted by subway was awkward (3 transfers). Yes I paid a premium, but the car was there in 5, I remained dry on the cold windy umbrella destroying day...the car was clean, the woman was great driver and pleasant. When I went home at 2am to queens I got a car within seconds and was home 20 min later paying $50 less than I have for black cars (which I usually use late so I don't deal with "I don't go to the queens" rude of yellow cab guys). In the end I paid my premium at rush hour, but still cost less than 1 black car home. Totally worth it.

AND in Queens where we had disgusting local cab service, dirty cars that were like broken down ash trays on wheels with drivers who never heard of soap, we now have a clean option for the airport or any place else you can't hail a cab.

And our pinko mayor and some other council ppl wanted welfare/buy out for medallion owners who paid $1M for a medallion now worth half that when they were unable to shut down Uber. F them.