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Re:Why can't we get rid of taxi medallions? (2012) by jws on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:26AM (#10338680)
If you made medallions nontransferrable then you would see each medallion be owned by its own individual corporation, then the corporation would be sold instead of the medallion.

A fixed term license would be a better idea.

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Re:Why can't we get rid of taxi medallions? (2012) by jonlucc on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:05AM (#10338943)
If I remember correctly from this[1] Planet Money podcast about a man who owns many medallions, the guy does have separate company names for each medallion.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/31/428157211/episo...

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Re:Why can't we get rid of taxi medallions? (2012) by Someone on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:44AM (#10339199)
If the government only hands out new ones that cannot be sold to humans that problem cannot occur.
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