http://www.openmarket.org/2008/02/05/cabbies-shrugged/ The Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:57:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.openmarket.org/2008/02/05/cabbies-shrugged/#comment-45100 Podunk Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:46:24 +0000 http://www.openmarket.org/2008/02/05/cabbies-shrugged/#comment-45100 If it had been up to him, I doubt this is a fight that Fenty would have picked. Thanks to our congressional overlords, he didn't have any choice about whether to deal with taxi fares. Sure, he could have said, "as long as we're being forced to change, we might as well go whole hog and jettison the whole taxicab commission, etc", but he has other priorities, and I think this was the path of least resistance. If it had been up to him, I doubt this is a fight that Fenty would have picked. Thanks to our congressional overlords, he didn’t have any choice about whether to deal with taxi fares. Sure, he could have said, “as long as we’re being forced to change, we might as well go whole hog and jettison the whole taxicab commission, etc”, but he has other priorities, and I think this was the path of least resistance.

]]> http://www.openmarket.org/2008/02/05/cabbies-shrugged/#comment-44246 Let’s Keep Taxis | OpenMarket.org Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:24:57 +0000 http://www.openmarket.org/2008/02/05/cabbies-shrugged/#comment-44246 [...] all with the D.C. cab drivers and I disagree with your post. Anyone with a not-terrible driving record should be free to operate a livery service that picks [...] [...] all with the D.C. cab drivers and I disagree with your post. Anyone with a not-terrible driving record should be free to operate a livery service that picks [...]

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