The business model for Uber and Lyft is quintessentially Drumpfish. Shaft the public (surge pricing), shaft the "contractor" drivers, shaft your own employees, shaft the competition. Everyone is expendable save the billionaires who own the service. Try (I know this is very hard, given your mindset exhibited here for so long) putting yourself in the position of a driver who finally worked, saved and borrowed enough to buy his or her own permit. They'll be bankrupt because you want to have latter day rickshaw drivers saving you a buck or two on a fare. It's you on the sides of the capitalists, against the "coolies." So take a minute to think about it, instead of acting like our "so-called president."

There are complaints, some no doubt legitimate, against drivers or cab permit owners. Not all the drivers, nor all the owners, of course. The City, I would assume, has an ombudsman to whom complaints might be directed. Put a notice in each cab of what to do if something needs to be fixed.