One of These Days I'm Gonna Get Organizized

Reason Staff | 12.12.2003 11:13 AM

New at Reason: Do you have a legal responsibility to pay too much for a car service? Jacob Sullum checks the meter.

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arvydas sabonis 23 years ago

This is an issue in Portland, OR as well:

http://www.willametteweek.com/flatfiles/News4607.lasso

Most people would probably prefer to take a town car to the airport and, up until now, they charged flat rates comparable to regular yellow taxis. I would hope that some of the local large business interests that contract with car services for airport rides take issue with this!
BrendanPerez 23 years ago

Lss Vegas is a contender for most corrupted...

This is just a current investigation, most notable for the FBIs use of the Patriot Act to Obtain financial info on something blatantly non-terrorist related
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/galardi/
Steve in CO 23 years ago

Anecdotal as this may be, my brother lives in Tampa and believes it is one the most corrupt cities in the country. City and county commisioners are regularly indicted for bribery and what not.

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