… be handled by companies, is that it would make more things more expensive in the city. Why were you comfortable proposing things that would make things more expensive? So one, I disagree very firmly, Lauren, with the premise of your question as it relates to the behavior or the response that an industry would give in response to a government action. I think it had, it would have had to be an intentional change choice by the industry to say that if you enact a $1 ride share tax in the city of Philadelphia, we are going to pass it on to our participants, our rider. (11:30–11:47)
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Asserts disagreement with the idea that industries will necessarily pass on taxes to consumers.
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