{"id":2546,"date":"2017-11-15T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2017-11-15T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:16:37","slug":"ssti-reports-uber-and-lyft-will-be-taxed-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2017\/11\/15\/ssti-reports-uber-and-lyft-will-be-taxed-more\/","title":{"rendered":"SSTI Reports Uber and Lyft Will Be Taxed More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attack on ride-sharing continues.<\/p>\n<p>SSTI has reported: <em>&#8220;Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing an increase in the city\u2019s fee charged to ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to offset the loss of revenue from public transit users who switched to ride-hailing services. Currently, the city charges Uber and Lyft 52 cents per ride-hailing trip. The proposal would raise the fee to 67 cents for 2018 and 72 cents for 2019.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you call this? We call it socialism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssti.us\/2017\/10\/offsetting-loss-of-public-transit-revenue-due-to-ride-hailing-services\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attack on ride-sharing continues. SSTI has reported: &#8220;Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing an increase in the city\u2019s fee charged to ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to offset the loss of revenue from public transit users who switched to ride-hailing services. Currently, the city charges Uber and Lyft 52 cents per ride-hailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,23,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-local","category-misc","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}