[sneak]

The government made artificial scarcity and now there is a market where you have to pay to get a license. Technically you do pay for licenses, just not the government.

[walterstucco]

government made them scarce because every time it tried to raise the number of licenses, taxi drivers basically have put up a riot .

they are mob criminals, there is no other world to describe their lobby.

[Heliosmaster]

But only because the government allows it. Licenses could be made non-transferable...