Name: Massachusetts’ New Tax Is a Necessary Strike Against Uber
Uploaded: 2016-08-22
Duration: 2 min 5 s
Description: And all of the other ride-hailing apps

Massachusetts wants to levy a 20 cent task against ride hailing companies. Robert, is it justified? Yes, it is justified. Look, I [ UNKNOWN ] unnecessary regulation and extra taxes, but Look, the State makes a lot of money off of it's taxi operations and Uber Lift have come along and they have totally gobbled that up. It's about time that they started paying their fair share. << disagree, disasgree .="" this ="" tax ="" is ="" hypocritical ,="" the ="" state ="" trying ="" to ="" have ="" it's ="" cake ="" and ="" eat ="" it ="" too .="" taxes ="" very ="" heavily ,="" regularly ,="" traditional ="" industry ="" then ="" takes ="" money ="">></ disagree ,> Does that for ride hailing and then moves it back to the traditional taxi industry? It's hypocritical, no way. No way look Andrew Uber and Lyft the only reason they've been able to win so spectacularly is because they've bucked all of the rules. They haven't been playing the same game that everybody else has been playing. And look, regulations can be good. They keep car fleets up to date, they fill the potholes in the roads and they protect drivers with insurance on their vehicles. I mean, there are good reasons for having these subsidies in place, these taxes in place. And let's go back in time, here. What exactly have the regulations and the rules given us, right? They came about For taxes because they were supposed to ensure that you had a safe clean ride, right? Let's look at the 70s. YOu got mean drivers, big bad guys, and then you got junk heap of cars, and everything was regulated. I mean, where's the Connect there. So even today, what gave rise to Uber and Lyft were these extremely stringent regulations that weren't applied correctly. And yeah, even today, you can get a better ride in a black car than you can a yellow. I'm sorry, this whole thing, tragedy, sham, mockery. Male 1: The transportation has improved drastically since then, and partly through the laws and the rules that have changed but I see your point about the 5 cents going to incumbents. Maybe that's not so fair paying to boost up the taxi operations in Massachusetts. Male 2: No way. Male 1: Maybe that's not okay but the fifteen cents that is going to the state to keep up its infrastructure, maintain its roads-- You know that sounds like a totally logical and acceptable thing to be doing. That's a fair point for one show that's always justified, come to Fortune. com for more tech debate. [ SOUND ]