Defending the Gypsy Cab Driver

Tags: Interventionism, Monopoly and Competition, Legal System

07/07/2010 Walter Block

A proper solution to the taxicab crisis is not to co-opt the movement of gypsy cab drivers by the offer to take them into the system, but rather to destroy the system of restrictive cab licenses, writes Walter Block.

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