Dear Sir, two recent items in the Daily Bulletin show that the free and open market principals enshrined in the European Union are being ignored.
Last Saturday an article referred to discussions to reduce the number of taxis at the airport. Discussions with whom and for whose benefit? In neither case is the answer the consumer. If there are too many cabs the economic laws of supply and demand will achieve any reduction necessary. The article also committed a Mendelssohn untruth' implying that the council was improving the lot of the passenger by ruling that cabbies accept whoever is first in the rank rather than cherry picking for the long journey. Let me tell the council something I think they know but turn a blind eye to cabbies are already obliged to take the first in line to wherever they want, be it two kilometres to Coll d'en Rebassa or 80 kilometres to Capdepera.
How free is the market?
09/02/2001 00:00
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