Minneapolis passes ordinance requiring Uber and Lyft to pay at least $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute for the time spent transporting a rider

Uber and Lyft both discontinued their services in Minneapolis leaving thousands stranded without a means to get to work and other places.

When will they ever learn? The answer to that question is likely never! Liberals will continue to believe that you can bully businesses into paying more in wages without any repercussions. They simply somehow believe that they can force businesses to take a hit to their bottom line with a variety of tactics, only to see the backfire almost every time as those businesses take other actions, that seem obvious to everyone but the liberal politician who passed the bill.

My son drove Uber for a short period of time (to supplement his income) before getting promoted to management at work. Some days he told me he barely made enough money to cover the cost of gas. Other days he said he did pretty well. But that was all determined by how well people were tipping. Without the tips, that job pays very little. So I feel for the person who does that job and the intentions to make it better for them is fine. But to for one city to demand that two private companies pay their employees a bigger wage to work in their city was not the way to go about it. Especially when the bigger wage is considerably different from what they normally make.

Just like every other time our Government tries to force companies to pay more in wages, we just see businesses pass along the cost, cut back on employees, or simply close up shop. I don't believe there has been a single time in our nation's history where businesses have just decided to take less in profits in order to accommodate an increase in minimum wage or any other form of requirement by the government to shell out more $$ for their employees. Yet, somehow these Governments believe that this time it will be different.

Now in Minneapolis there are problems:

Some local agencies are scrambling Friday to try and figure out how to keep providing transportation to the area's most vulnerable populations after Uber and Lyft announced they're leaving Minneapolis on May 1st due to a new ordinance. [...]

Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed it, but then on Thursday, a majority of the council members overrode his veto.

So apparently there are social programs available for "vulnerable" people that provides them with Uber and Lyft rides to get them to work, appointments, and such. Now these programs are trying to figure out the next step. They could always call a taxi cab service, but that cost is considerably more and would not likely work for them. So in trying to help the drivers, the Minneapolis city counsel ended up hurting everyone involved. I would say these are unintended consequences, but what (again) is the definition of insanity?