If you want to become a street side vendor, you must first get a permit which costs money and are often in limited supply. The reason behind this is because businesses are corrupt and must be limited by the government and permits help protect consumers and don't harm innocent people in any way what-so-ever. At least... that's what you're going to hear from advocates who support vending licenses.
But let's suppose we allow people to sell food from vending carts and stands on the side of the street. What could we expect to see? For one, children wont be shut down by police officers.
I suppose I'm taking the position of Eliot Ness in the movie The Untouchables. I'll tolerate the law until it falls.
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I understand the need for the taxi medallions, but their costs are ridiculous, it shouldn't cost over half a million dollars to own a taxi.
There isn't even a problem with taxis that aren't under the medallion system.
Licensing permits are ridiculous.
The only understandable reason to force people to have licenses is to make it so that they are on record for when one of their products does harm someone else, but that's it. That means...
1. Licenses should NEVER be limited. This includes the medallions. There is absolutely NO reason to limit the number of licenses given.
I can only assume the cops who shut them down were either idiots or they got a complaint from some suffering from an cranial lodgement within there **** cavity.
I'm fine with having licensing permits. I mean, there has to be a little bit of order and control otherwise who knows wtf would be happening on the street. A license is chill. But having to pay a ton of cash for it and them possibly being limited is stupid. Limiting them hurts people's economic abilities, and making them any more expensive than they need to be [like..simple expenditures needed to create the license] just keeps people from trying to start up a mini-business. The law fails and it sucks you can't sell lemonade the way you should.
The law is he law is not a good position to take. Laws are meant to keep us safe and should be fluid depending on the situation and intent of the laws in question. So we have to question what gain is there in enforcing the law in this situation? Who does it protect?
1. Licenses should NEVER be limited. This includes the medallions. There is absolutely NO reason to limit the number of licenses given.
I'm fine with having licensing permits. I mean, there has to be a little bit of order and control otherwise who knows wtf would be happening on the street.
Honestly, I believe we should be able to buy whatever we want from whoever we want. The only thing a license would do is put someone in the books so that if they sell a product that harms someone or if their product is a scam, they will be much more easily held accountable.
The problem, however, is that you can't get a permit for a one time business deal. Let's say there's a public park and you have people making hot dogs and hamburgers. In many places, it would be illegal for them to sell the food to other people. Now, if the park doesn't want anyone selling food there, then that's okay. If the issue isn't that it's against park policy to sell foods and goods, but rather a vending license issue, then there's a problem.
I understand what you're getting at, but I feel that could potentially cause overcrowding, it's in the same way I agree with the medallions, I don't agree with the cost, I do agree with the limited availability, so there aren't a thousand different vendors on the street, or a million individual taxi companies in one city. The bigger market may increase competition and make it easier on the consumer, but makes it much much harder on the individual owner, who can't really compete with the bigger competitors.
kyouzuo is right, because there already is overcrowding in some places. In some places of new york there are too many vendors. There are so many that you can see like four or six on the same block. It's a little too much. now it's almost impossible to get a license, but theres actually a good reason.
If the issue isn't that it's against park policy to sell foods and goods, but rather a vending license issue, then there's a problem.
It would also be a different story of the park only wanted people with vending licenses to sell there.
kyouzuo is right, because there already is overcrowding in some places. In some places of new york there are too many vendors. There are so many that you can see like four or six on the same block. It's a little too much. now it's almost impossible to get a license, but theres actually a good reason.
Then why not instead of restricting the business from starting restrict the number of people who can sell in a given area? This way you still get your business, you just have to do it someplace else or wait til there is an opening in the area you want.
I understand what you're getting at, but I feel that could potentially cause overcrowding, it's in the same way I agree with the medallions, I don't agree with the cost, I do agree with the limited availability, so there aren't a thousand different vendors on the street, or a million individual taxi companies in one city.
Limited availability allows for monopolization. It allows businesses to have less competition. By the chance that someone comes up with a quality product at a cheaper price, they have no chance to make their sales.
I still stand that you can't have too many vendors. I never actually heard of a problem caused by a place having too many vendors. Understand that the more vendors you have in a single area, the more divided the profit going towards them as a whole will be. This means any vendor who isn't making enough of a profit to stay in business will go under. If none of the vendors go out of business, then obviously people are interested enough in their goods that they can stay open, which is a sign of a successful business.
The same goes for having too many taxis. It's just not going to happen. The more taxis you have, the more available they become. Not only that, but the taxi businesses will have to compete with one another, which lowers costs.
or a million individual taxi companies in one city
Were there ever a million different taxi companies in one city? Exaggeration aside, were there ever too many taxi companies? What harm has this caused? Do the flaws outweigh the benefits?
Then why not instead of restricting the business from starting restrict the number of people who can sell in a given area? This way you still get your business, you just have to do it someplace else or wait til there is an opening in the area you want.
I'm assuming you only mean for this law to apply to public areas. Again, I must wonder what the issue would be with having "too many". If there's too many that businesses will be hurt, then they will naturally fail. If it's crowding, then one must wonder if it's worth preventing businesses just because people are bunched together. If people are willing to crowd an area to get to a vendor, then apparently crowding isn't too big an issue to make them turn away. And even if people do want to avoid the crowd, they can simply move past it and take their business somewhere else.
The only time action should be taken is if roads begin to get blocked by cars, but this would simply result in police telling people to not park on the road and to either find a place or eat somewhere else.
I'm assuming you only mean for this law to apply to public areas.
Yes of course for public areas only. Private property can make their own decisions on such matters.
Again, I must wonder what the issue would be with having "too many". If there's too many that businesses will be hurt, then they will naturally fail. If it's crowding, then one must wonder if it's worth preventing businesses just because people are bunched together. If people are willing to crowd an area to get to a vendor, then apparently crowding isn't too big an issue to make them turn away. And even if people do want to avoid the crowd, they can simply move past it and take their business somewhere else.
The effects of over crowding would likely be felt hardest by new businesses. This wouldn't give the new guy a chance in the market.
The only time action should be taken is if roads begin to get blocked by cars, but this would simply result in police telling people to not park on the road and to either find a place or eat somewhere else.
With an area over crowded with vendors the vendors themselves could also cause such a problem. At the very least over crowding increases the likely hood of this happening along with accidents as a result.
