[throwaway_yy2Di]

You're egregiously misunderstanding your opponents' viewpoints. I'm one of them. Probably on your ideological antipode even.

I support (!) regulation prohibiting retaliatory blacklists.

I support criminal prosecution of fraud, like the accusation of Uber's fake orders to rivals.

I support background inspections for taxi drivers.

I support regulation that demands a high level of driving skill from taxi drivers. And any supporting regulation, such as mandatory courses, tests, and inspections.

I do not support taxi commissions as creators of privileged monopolies.

I do not support taxi licenses priced above $1 million per car as a tool to enforce monopolies.

I do not support price controls on economic services, including taxis.

I do not support supply quotas on the number of taxi sales.

I do not support any similar attempt at centralized command & control economics.

Those are the reasons I criticize taxi commissions (that and the extreme corruption). Can you accept that this is the position of most of your opponents? Don't strawmen us.

[RockyMcNuts]

I agree with all your statements. I don't have any opponents in the sense of people I oppose. There are some people who think any regulation is defacto bad and a 'free' market will solve anything, and I think they are misguided. In particular, they forget that 'free' markets are complex institutions and standards and conventions and rules about things like what constitutes fraud that have evolved over centuries.