Taxis

May be I should not have stopped driving. Uber seems good for making ends meet in lean times. It would have been handy in the eighties when I had job problems. In places like Melbourne, it is not the taxi drivers who are making money from taxis but the license owners and the state government : "n 31st May 2012, the day the Taxi Inquiry’s Draft Report was released, the value of a Melbourne taxi licence dropped from $470,000 to somewhere between $300,000 and $250,000 as assignment (lease) fees fell from around $35,000 p.a. to $20,000 p.a.." from http://www.ozcabbie.com/melbourne-plate-owners-rally-against-reforms