The Briefing Room
General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: ABX on July 22, 2015, 04:54:54 pm
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When politicians threaten to destroy innovative companies, they're threatening us all.
Hillary Clinton gave a speech warning that the new "sharing economy" of businesses such as the rideshare company Uber is "raising hard questions about workplace protections."
Democrats hate what labor unions hate, and a taxi drivers' union hates Uber, too. Its NYC website proclaims, "Uber has the money. But we are the PEOPLE!"
The taxi cartels, which provide inferior service and are micromanaged by government, don't like getting competition from efficient companies like Uber....
http://reason.com/archives/2015/07/22/the-politicians-war-on-uber