I assume its possible for that vague state transportation fund to go towards the MBTA, but I’d be surprised if Boston ever did right by the MBTA.

This subsidy can work the other way. Now the taxi companies have to accept Uber and Lyft. People that have to use taxi’s might go back to using taxis, but the rest of us that use Uber and Lyft instead of driving will NEVER call a taxi.

Better idea: twenty cents goes to the MBTA for expansion and overhaul funds, and five cents to the state for other transportation projects.

Uber and Lyft need regulating and taxis need competition. But subsidizing one by taxing the other is ridiculous. Taxes should go to the public resources that are spent supporting cars (like infrastructure and public transit).

I had the same thoughts, but someone pointed out that he’s hamming it up for the camera and that’s when she seems “honey I love you but”

Chip/Johnathan forever. I will go down with that ship.

Sigh.

Thing is he's a dum dum and she's probably a nightmare of a person in real life. Point is that she's gotta have some baggage for that to work.

How could you write a contract that stops homeowners from doing whatever the F they like with their own homes? Calm down kids.

Yes, we do. The Brazilian government has always had a heavy hand when dealing with these sorts of things, including the detaining of individuals either unrelated to the incident in question, or wholly innocent of wrongdoing. This is nothing new for them, but Rio now shines a spotlight on it.

Their police rob olympic swimmers at gun point, then seize the victim’s passports so they can be held until they recant their stories. Yes, Brazil looks very bad.

wait, you think Brazil is the one looking bad here? lol ok

Yes.

That was my thought. The favelas explode damn near every night but they’re hellbent on questioning olympic athletes?

Corrupt Latin and South American legal systems have never had qualms about locking tourists up, and then milking them dry financially while extracting a metaphorical pound of flesh. It’s going to be interesting watching that institution butt heads with an IOC that is desperately trying to have the legacy of these…

Why would the brazilian government even try to pursue this further? Frankly it just makes the country look even worse and petty IMO.