This is a must-read column from Jonah Goldberg.

A taste.

Jonah Goldberg: Let the taxi app roll – latimes.com: Uber is a car service that you ‘hail’ with a smartphone app. Because it’s fast and reliable, it’s a threat to established taxis, and they’re trying to kill it.
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So it’s no wonder that New York’s cab industry loves its regulators and vice versa. The Taxi and Limousine Commission exists to regulate taxicabs. If taxicabs — as we know them, at least — go out of business, what’s the point of having a commission?

Such thinking has given birth to a national movement to kill Uber and companies like it. Uber, a San Francisco start-up, is a car service that you “hail” with an app on your smartphone. In Washington, where I live, it is a life-changer. It’s a bit more expensive than conventional cabs, but because I can’t hail a cab in my suburban neighborhood and calling for one can take hours (if they show up at all), a fast and reliable car service is a real boon. The fact that it’s a much nicer car that has been cleaned more than once since Jimmy Carter was president is a bonus.