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Uber is a national company whose business model was predicated on breaking local laws.

The Koch Brothers run multiple national companies and had one of their companies recently raided for employing illegal immigrants.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-ice-raids-koc...



> Uber is a national company whose business model was predicated on breaking local laws.

Nope

> The Koch Brothers run multiple national companies and had one of their companies recently raided for employing illegal immigrants.

Are you implying they did this because the previous administration 'did not care' ? That's a large assumption.


So Uber wasn’t breaking local taxi laws for years?

Everyone knows that farmers and companies employing low skill labor have been employing illegal immigrants for decades. Other presidents both Republican and Democrats have looked the other way because both sets of employers would not be able to find enough cheap labor otherwise. No one wants to harm the farm belt because of their outsized electoral college influence.


I don't think anything Uber did related to selectively ignoring laws when a new administration took office.

How is any of this about large companies not caring about laws because of a new president?


Well seeing that your question doesn’t have anything to do with the thread...

My post:

“ It’s not about the regulations, it’s about whether the executive branch chooses to enforce them and how much.”

And the response to:

“ That's really not true, you can't run a giant public company and start breaking laws because you think 'the current executive branch won't care'.”

What does it have to do with “changing” the executive branch?

The “executive branch” is not just at the federal level. It’s also at the state and the local level where the president/governor/mayor has a lot of influence on what gets enforced.




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