Comments on: Sacramento Crashes Taxi Owners

By: dave

dave — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:00:41 +0000

Simple economics doesn’t necessarily work here because many of the drivers are collectiong some sort of other income therefore they don’t need to book a decent day. Instead they take one or 2 fares a day which is just enought to whittle away at the drivers who need to pay $75 to $100 a day for the car lease plus gas expense and then try to put something in our pocket. So the drivers who being subsidized choke the rest of us as they cut into the pie of availible business. Without their susidies they would be shut down in a heart beat or really hustle to make it or not and be off the street. The econo,ies of scale are skewed here. %00 is too many for current business conditions.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:52:24 +0000

I am a taxi driver and i want to let you guys know fares are regulated by city of Sacramento not by drivers ortaxi better be prepare then so latecab companies in Sacramento.When i Started taxi in 2003 there were only 100 taxis in Sacramento and now about 500 taxis in the town.Do think city grown this big?

By: LetThemEatCake

LetThemEatCake — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:27:46 +0000

… “just as Roman emperors distracted the peasantry with bread and circuses. Roman emperors kept the population fed and distracted while they gradually left them homeless, penniless and absolutely dependent on the government. Sacramento is fast becoming an insane circus, with barking mad leaders who surely must see themselves as emperors.” KG

Nice analogy.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:03:08 +0000

I fail to see how *too many* taxicabs increase fares. Excess supply usually decreases prices. How did Sacramento taxi drivers avoid this iron law of economics?

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:12:27 +0000

This is so dumb. If you reduce the number of taxi drivers, then you increase the price. It’s simple supply and demand from Econ. 101.

And if you increase the price of cabs, then more people will shun cabs for their own cars, worsening pollution.

Also, cab licensing is racist, as Walter Williams has written for years, because it raises costs for the “little guys,” who usually are members of minorities. He has a new column up on it:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=329117