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Private sector employers have as much incentive, if not more, to ensure that their brand is as free from potential liability as possible.\n\nMoreover, the fingerprint background checks demanded by opponents of the ride-sharing companies are far from infallible themselves.  In 2013, the National Employment Law Project published a report indicating that inaccuracies within the FBI’s databases are blocking some 600,000 Americans annually from “jobs for which they may be perfectly qualified.”  The Department of Justice indicated that roughly half of the FBI’s databases are incomplete or inaccurate, largely because the agency fails to input the final outcomes of arrests.\n\nThe conflict in Austin may seem to some like a victory for public safety, but for most consumers, it ultimately limits choice, while protecting legacy taxicab operators from competition.  If more municipalities or even states, begin mirroring the actions in Austin, fights like this are going to become more frequent.  Ride-sharing companies, which have already been sued in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California and have announced plans to leave Houston, Texas, over the same fingerprint requirement.\n\nConsumers love the freedom and convenience to choose when, where, and how they get from point A to B.  Uber and Lyft have loyal consumer bases, which could be a vital lifeline in the battle over burdensome regulations.  All other things being equal, the market should be the deciding factor for a business’s success, not the government.\n\nThe anti-competitive narrative that is percolating in cities and states begs the question:  why protect the greedy taxi cartels more than consumers?  The answer lies with the cronies of “big government” mayors and governors, who may be easily influenced by the political power of the taxi cartel, with its infamous medallion system.\n\nDuring the Great Depression, New York City had between 15,000 to 25,000 cab drivers on the road.  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Medallion owners are very politically active and can be quite generous with their campaign donations to those willing to block reforms that might threaten their financial interests.\n\nMichael Bloomberg, Former New York City Mayor, was a bit skeptical of the Big Apple’s taxi medallion system.  In a 2012 interview, Mayor Bloomberg said, “The cab industry’s a funny industry. I don’t know of any other place in the world where the city gives a license and the people that have that license can then trade it and resell it and the city doesn’t have any interest and any ability to share in the value going up.”\n\nBloomberg went on to say, “A normal market, you’d say, ‘well, just issue more taxi licenses,’ wrong. Because they have bought the legislatures and stopped the ability to do that. 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