Nevada agency wants crackdown on Uber ‘aliens’
By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal
The state’s battle against Uber is on.
The Nevada Transportation Authority late Thursday unanimously supported Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto’s strategy to take legal action against illegal passenger carrier activity in the state.
Commissioner Keith Sakelhide wondered aloud why the board that regulates buses and limousines statewide and taxicabs outside Clark County even had to vote on the measure.
“Is it really necessary to have an agenda item for the attorney general’s office to do its job?” Sakelhide said.
But Chairman Andrew MacKay said taking up the issue was important because “actions of a certain magnitude should be ratified by the full board.”
And the arrival of Uber has hit Nevada with the magnitude of a major earthquake.
In two public comment sessions conducted by the board, representatives of the industry encouraged regulators to use whatever means necessary to prevent illegal operations.
The unions HATE competition. If Uber were really so dangerous to the safety of the people, it wouldn’t be so popular. It’s all about union power. Nothing else.
We now have Uber Black in South Lake Tahoe.
One has to ask why an industry is regulated by government. Is it to protect the owner of the business? Is it to protect the customer? Is it so the government can collect money from the business?
If I ask my neighbor to give me a ride and I pay him something is that regulated?
If we could just get rid of all the evil Unions we could go back to child labor, discrimination of all sorts in hiring, elimination of all safety or workman’s comp, 8 hour days and overtime, weekends, the right of workers to collectively bargain and many more things that our predecessors fought and died for.
We should all work for crap wages so the 1% amass enough to trickle down? How stupid is that ?