May 6, 2011
Interim Mayor Ed Lee
Members of the Board
City hall, Room 400
One Carlton Goodlett
San Francisco, CA
Mayor Lee:
SUBJECT: Additional Outrageous Fees for San Francisco taxi drivers & firms
This letter is being sent directly to you for a purpose. The MTA, with a deficit which is really over 200 million dollars a year and growing, (without your off balance sheet accounting) due to the incompetence of their Chief, Debra Johnson, the man’s special services partner, the MTA Commission and administrators, has found a new gold and silver mine in the ranks of this City’s taxi industry and particularly the taxi drivers. Since the MTA took over the SF Tax Commission, all taxi fees have been heading to the stars. And, their new taxi group agenda keeps adding new fees. The MTA and the new taxi authority no longer serve the public; they just sit back and collect fat paychecks and benefits.” Our taxi industry fees are going straight up with their paychecks.
On May 3rd, 2011, your local taxi drivers, who are now being ripped off, raped, squeezed, pruned, stapled, and hit by this City for more and more money, did not circle City Hall for amusement, they are just fed up with business as usual. In the last 15 years, between Willie Lewis Brown and Gavin Getty Newsom, taxi driver income has been stretched to its limits. After 15 years of these dudes helping drivers, many taxi drivers still live in their cars, yes in their vehicles while serving the public, in this tourist town, paying fantastic taxi fees and citations to support your salaries and pensions. Do not take my word for it, read the enclosed three page flyer. Then wonder why drivers sill use General Hospital, with not much in medical insurance or a pension plan or a medical & dental plan, when you and the Board have it? Also, drivers are being forced to buy more and more expensive equipment, our costs are becoming catastrophic.
Emil Lawrence MBA
CA/Fed Tax preparer,
Tax Analyst, Strategist
(Fed-PTIN # PO1364976)
660 Westfield Road
Units 281-287
San Francisco, CA 94128
1-415-7705 PCS
Taxi Driver, Badge #47921
Taxi Medallion Owner 9015
Wheelchair Access Ramp Taxi
With Royal Taxi Company
cc: Taxi Drivers and firms
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