I agree with this as long as there is a healthy free market, and 2 or 3 companies to choose from isn't a healthy free market. Either we need to bust these companies up, or regulate them better. In D&D terms, a single company shouldn't be able to give you a permanent stat penalty just because you did something like use the word "young". Many of these companies are so big that if one of the big 2 or 3 ban you, your entire life will be affected. Another example is LinkedIn, if I get banned from LinkedIn I guess I'll just take the -50% to all future job opportunities. Once these companies get big enough they owe society better than automated support processes and surprise lifetime bans once an algorithm determines you might not be profitable enough to bother with.
There is also an argument that lift should be paying the government 10 cents a mile to use the states roads.
Do you realized the cost will simply be passed on to the consumer in the end either way leading to higher inflation?
I would love to see some data to support your claim.
My take is that cars/pickups/suvs are overpaying by a lot and commercial trucks are underpaying by a lot.
My biggest concern is that taxes, like inflation, only ever seem to go up, never down.
In this case I would be in favor of correcting this inequality if we reduce gas taxes for standard vehicles while increasing taxes on commercial trucks, but given their track record I suspect governments will never reduce taxes, only increase them.
[0] https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu...
They are a necessity if you live in a small town, the suburbs, a rural area, an area with extreme weather, have a family with young children, etc.
* In the US, 93% of households have access to a personal vehicle [0].
* 77.3% of respondents think owning a car is necessary [0]
If we increase taxes on personal vehicles it would disproportionately impact lower income workers who can barely afford to get by as it is. Forcing a single mom on a low income such that she could no longer afford to drive would tax her 10’s of hours every week resulting in untold hardship. It would be a disaster.
What you are advocating would only work if we invested trillions of dollars in transit infrastructure.
Taxation or more debt isn’t enough to pay for that transformation without absolutely destroying the economy and the quality of life of hundreds of millions of Americans.
Personal vehicles are only a luxury if you live in a fantasy.
[0] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/car-ownership-st...
I could see an argument both ways but taxing electric vehicles would tend to negate the incentive to switch from polluting cars.
Would you rather those Uber drivers pollute our air or would it make sense to encourage switching to zero emission vehicles?
Air pollution is a different issue and electric cars have rebates to encourage purchases.
Everything we consume is shipped and if the price of everything goes up the standard of living of everyone goes down. This would be a regressive tax that would disproportionately impact those who can least afford it.
This would be incredibly inflationary and hurt the poorest the most. Bad idea.
Frankly, the antitrust regulators and legislators have been asleep at the wheel for decades and have allowed an unimaginable level of consolidation in multiple sectors of the market. We should never have gotten to this point, but now that we’re here I feel like we need to follow the Big Bell example.
Make it clear what you won't accept, have a whole web page with every single thing that you have decided on as corporate taboo.
What about if some VC decides to use 200 million USD to undercut your prices? Would you consider that a healthy free market?
It's pretty funny how lots of people that are more or less rabidly anti-regulation never manage to consider limited liability to be regulation.
Is anyone else confused how this is discriminatory? And what kind of guideline does it violate?
In US every description is a discrimination. Fat, slim, black, white ( they say caucasian in movies without knowing what skin color the people living in that region have), master, slave, red, yellow.
And i bet Lyft will never hire a Dick (Chenney) or a Peacock .
That's some great customer service right there.