Bernie Sanders Bashes Uber, Uses It For All His Taxi Rides
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FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2015 Nov 7, 3:45am
Only to people who are too dumb to realize the rich advocating raising taxes but do not voluntarily give money to government are really advocating their power to spend more of your money --- because they already own the government!
Perhaps they just want to pay for the services that they received instead of loaning the government money (buying treasuries) to provide those services.
The first part (that the people who disagree with you are dumb) is a blind assertion and is frankly moronic. The second part is not true. Do you believe that all rich people are motivated purely by greed and self interest? Do you believe that all people are motivated this way? Are you motivated purely by greed and self-interest? Are you just projecting this on other people?
How do you think the taxi commissions came about? Organized and paid for by taxi company owners who wanted the government to step in to limit supply, so they can raise prices! Slow response is just a side effect of reduced supply!
I agree that taxis are over-regulated. Getting a cab at O'Hare airport is a 30 minute affair for no reason. It is horrible. To get an Uber, you have to take a train off the airport grounds. Regular cabs are over-regulated, and Uber is underregulated IMO. But all Bernie said is that Uber is unregulated, and that is a problem. Well, they are not unregulated at the moment, but they are skirting laws that affect all other car service / taxi companies. One thing that Uber shows us, and Bernie must see is that something is horribly wrong with the regular taxi service. Uber is the most efficient method of moving people around quickly with a minimum of traffic and parking, which is good for governments who pay for roads and parking in some cases. If Bernie comes out and asks for Uber to limit the number of cars in use, then you have a point. Until then, you're just standing there with your dick in your hand arguing about imaginary boogie men in blue donkey suits. No worries, though. That is a marketable skill. You would make a good Fox News correspondent.
The average person gives $3K a year to charity and the median income is $52K. Bernie makes 4x the median and gives $8K. That doesn't sound like "more", it actually sounds like less, as a percentage of his income.
Oh my the percentage of income argument. Then you must be a strongly in favor of more progressive taxation since many of the 1%'s pay less as a percentage of income than many of the middle class. Oh right hypocrisy doesn't exist for right wingnuts, I forgot.
Funny how no one can come up with a transcript of the actual interview to see what the quote really was and in what context. You would think bloomberg would release the interview rather than their summary of it, but no not happening. Very curious, I wonder why not. There is only the right wingnut echo chamber endlessly bouncing back and forth what bloomberg says bernie said. Of course for the average brain dead right wingnut idiot having another brain dead right wingnut idiot blog it on the internet is the gold standard of proof.
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2015 Nov 7, 7:54am
A transcript would be a help. It seemed to be an off hand comment in relation to a question about minimum wage for servers who also get tips: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-06/bernie-sanders-takes-on-clinton-welfare-legacy-as-he-woos-iowa-unions
It's hard to find any reasonable articles on it, b/c there are so many hits of right wing sites giving 'gotcha journalism' their best effort.
Dan8267
2015 Nov 7, 10:26am
You are too dumb to realize that the taxi oligopoly (and price fixing) is the result of city taxi commission regulations.
No, I'm well aware that oligopolies have used government power to ensure their stability. You are too dumb to realize that nothing I said implies this isn't so.
You are also too dumb to realize that oligopolies and monopolies will always form in the absence of anti-trust laws. For example, De Beers. The fool most responsible for monopolies and oligopolies destroying the free market is Ronald Reagan, who effectively ended anti-trust enforcement. You want a free market? Then never vote Republican.
Dan8267
2015 Nov 7, 10:35am
Spicoli was no liberal. Using him as a liberal icon illustrates your deep misunderstanding of what liberalism is.
That said, when an entertainer or a professional athlete makes millions of dollars, he isn't ass fucking your family over. You choose whether or not to buy that movie ticket or that baseball game ticket. No one is forcing you to buy it or coercing you in any way. You can easily choose not to participate. One can make the point that Americans value entertainment way more than they should, but that's a value judgement.
What's important is that when that CEO takes in tens of millions of dollars for producing little to no wealth, he is ass fucking your family. He's playing a zero-sum game that you cannot choose not to participate in. His ludicrous income isn't coming from millions of dollars of entertainment value he's created; it's coming directly from the wealth you, your spouse, and your children create in their jobs. That's a big mother-fucking difference.
No CEO is generating tens of millions of dollars a year. He's just siphoning tens of millions of dollars of wealth produced by thousand to tens of thousands of hard-working people. So yes, being pissed off at that is justified. When Britney Spears licks a hammer in her underwear, the money she makes doesn't come out of my pocket against my will. When a CEO lowers the salaries of thousands of employees so he can buy a massive yacht with the wealth those employees produced, that's fucking greed. When hard-working, honest American families lose their breadwinner's job because Goldman Sachs played zero-sum games that wretched the economy, that's fucking greed.
John Bailo
2015 Nov 7, 1:02pm
Just ask yourself...how many stockbrokers have farmhouses in Vermont...after 20 years of "Bern Socialism"
Funny...
...how, once again, you can't defend the un-defendable with Bernie, so you just pound away at the keyboard with lines of bullshit.... What happened, you forgot to include fucking farm animals again in your reply, maybe you need to go back to the Dan School of Insults to "bone up"!
I take it that you are in favor of more progressive taxation then.
A transcript would be a help. It seemed to be an off hand comment in relation to a question about minimum wage for servers who also get tips
No one has any idea what the comment was or in response to what. You only have what bloomberg says it was.
Just ask yourself...how many stockbrokers have farmhouses in Vermont...after 20 years of "Bern Socialism"
This makes less sense than an ironman comment and that's a very very low bar.
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By Blake Neff Just a couple months ago, Bernie Sanders lambasted Uber as an “unregulated†company with “serious problems,†but financial disclosures by the Democratic presidential candidate reveal that whenever his campaign requires a taxi, they literally always turn to Uber.
According to research done by National Journal, 100 percent of Sanders’ spending on taxi and ride-sharing services was spent on Uber. Among 2016 presidential contenders, that’s a distinction Sanders shares with only Bobby Jindal, Martin O’Malley, and the defunct Scott Walker and Rick Perry campaigns.
http://truthinmedia.com/bernie-sanders-uber/
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