Tax drivers make their money off their gratuities.

NEW YORKERS ARE CHEAP!

The proper tip for any luxury is 3 times the amount of a regular service however, new yorkers are SO DAMN CHEAP, instead of tipping twenty percent at a restaurant they will only tip twice the tax ! Thats less than %17.

CHEAP!

And you gottah love the people who use the excuse, “they are from Europe so they don’t tip there”. Even though they learn our language, learn our culture, learn our geography better than we know it and they know right from wrong, they come here and use that poor lame ass excuse. GIVE ME A BREAK

CHEAP!

If you want to know how to properly tip someone who is a vendor, its like this.

Before I get into this, I would like to express that tipping a TAXI DRIVER is much different from tipping a WAITER or WAITRESS or the chick at the door who takes your coat.

TIPPING A TAXI DRIVER:
**if you take the taxi less than 6 days per week**
%40
$4.00 Minimum
$20.00 Maximum

example:
BILL = $0 to $10 $4.00 tip
BILL = $50 to infinity = $20.00

AIRPORT or log trips %40 of the trip total
Unless its a SET FEE (set fee, follow the %40 rule)

**if you take the taxi less everyday, 6 days more more**

It’s very easy.
Round UP to the nearest dollar and add $2.00

example.
If your bill is $3.20
ROUND UP to $4.00 and add $2.00
TOTAL $6.00

WHY NOT %20?
%20 is great for a server
However, a server does not have to shell out close to $300.00 before they start making a dollar.

Eating is a necessity, not a luxury.
Taxi’s are a luxury item so they should be tipped so.

It’s weird how we will tip the cute white girl who gets our coat $10.00 and it take no effort or expense on her part and we will give the doorman a $5 bill to hail a taxi and he stands there with his hand out but we will crawl in a taxi and he will get you to your destination and use his skills so you arrive in one piece and we tip one dollar (half of that is stolen by Mayor Bloomberg and his chorines).

WAKE UP PEOPLE.
The only reason you assist in this exploitation of taxi drivers is because the majority of them are muslim and YOU HATE MUSLIMS.

The word has gotten out that its a bloodbath with taxi drivers and now people are systematically trying to rip them off. IT’S NOTHING MORE THAN A MODERN DAY CONCENTRATION CAMP!

These people have to earn a living and you people want to do everything you can to KEEP THE GENOCIDE GOING !

That taxi driver should have gotten more than a stupid Ipod. She should have been taken to jail just like anyone else that would steal from a vendor.

New York City Is NO melting pot.

It is a city that has a lot of people in it, but I never seen cheese melt in CUBES!

It has its this neighborhood and that neighborhood and only hires their own race kind of crowed. A complete throwback to the 1940s. Just check craigslist, New York (and all of its legalized freedoms) actually ignore the fact that companies are breaking federal law and asking for photos to be submitted with their resume to ensure the fact that they do not have to hire most minorities and particularly African Americans.

What does this have to do with TAXI DRIVERS?

Answer:……… EVERYTHING

You see, the strong hold in this city (that is financial strong hold) would be Jewish People. And if the Non-Mainstream media were to put the proverbial writing on the wall and told you, “what do Jewish People HATE the MOST?

If you said Muslims, you would be more than likely correct.
Now then, What is the face of taxi drivers known the world over…
if you said MUSLIM, give yourself a sweet carrot!

The fact is that since Taxi Drivers are never seen in the media like some cops are (shooting people “by mistake”, raping women, handcuffing and dating underaged children and so on ) they are seen as the bottom of the bottom of the barrel, yet they do things to improve their situations case by case and in the process, they get shafted by the media and government and people like you and me.

Nothing I said is wrong, so before you give your quick knee jerk reaction, read on.

Why is it that taxi drivers of NYC pay out of pocket for things they absolutely do not have any reason to pay for. I forget what it’s called but there is this transportation tax that taxi drivers pay and it basically take half of their gratuity. Taxi drivers make their money off of their gratuity

I kinda look at it like she was a young girl with a “new experience” and when a person in a uniform with a badge said “leave your IPod” (even though they are not “cops” they are still persons of authority)…she did. As quickly as everything probably took place…I can’t say I would have been at the top of my game when I was 20…experience has taught me to handle some of these things a lot better. But I would have been shaking in my boots.

I do concur that I would prefer to have cash available for the cab ride but…we really NEVER use cabs (at least not here in Texas). I wouldn’t have a CLUE how much a cab ride to the airport was. Usually when I travel anywhere I have a rental car…never been to New York. I know Washington DC was a completely different animal. My rental stayed parked at the hotel and I ended up using the Metro for everything. But I never got in a Taxi.

Now…a couple of weirds things to me…

#1 The whole bank and transfer the money thing. Credit cards don’t require you to have “X” amount of money in the bank…that’s why they’re CREDIT cards…they give you “credit” for the amount you need and you pay later. DEBIT cards may limit you to the amount you have in the bank.

#2 Leaving an “Chicken” (aka the IPod)to pay for services…as apparently “imposed” by the “port authority” as per the stories of both the girl and the taxi driver…WOW…that just seems to be TOTALLY out of line. I’d say the Port Authority should issue and apology to both the taxi driver and the girl…I’m guessing they just wanted them out of “traffic”. I believe she should have been escorted to the nearest ATM and asked to withdraw the money.

#3 Why was only a SINGLE “credit card” her only means of payment? What would have happened if she “lost” her card? Lesson #1 NEVER travel ANYWHERE with only a “single” credit card and absolutely no emergency funds.

“If you walk into the Gap and your credit card gets declined you can not walk out with the purchase. Well the same applies here. If you can not pay for your ride, why should that be the cab driver’s fault to suck up the loss?”

I walk into a restaurant, which has “We accept credit cards x,y,z” in the window and on the menus. I order, and eat. No word from the waiter about a “problem” with the credit card machine or whatever. The bill comes. I offer my credit card. Now the credit card machine is broken. Not that my card has been declined, but their machine is not working. What now, call the police if I don’t start coughing up the cash? That’s ridiculous. If you advertise that you take a type of credit card, then claim you cannot (through no fault of the customer) after I’ve consumed the product, that’s bait and switch. Perhaps not intentionally, but that’s what it is. The customer cannot return the meal, or the cab ride, as if it were a piece of merchandise. The resolution of course is to manually process the card, with the old style manual card device which mechanically takes an image of the card’s number and generates receipts for the customer and the merchant / restaurant. Why do cabbies not have these as a backup, especially if these problems with reading cards or communicating for card approval keep coming up? If the customer pays in cash in a case like this, he is doing the vendor / driver / restauranteer a favor – which is not required.

Several people have mentioned that the cabbies don’t want the credit card readers, that this has been imposed on them. Too bad, that’s between them and the city, or whoever is allegedly forcing this on them. It is not the customer’s responsibility. Also mentioned is that the cabby could end up with a card dispute, or stolen card used in the purchase, or some such. Again, this comes with the territory of accepting credit cards. Apparently, NYC cab regulations (per their website) do -not- say that the driver must be paid in cash if the card reader is not working (it’s an option, but not required), but instead suggests that the customer report the cab’s medallion number. That’s what I would do, get on my cell phone and report the cabbie for non-complicance with regulations in this situation. If the police show up and start to wrongly insist that I pay cash or whatever, then I request a supervisor – up the chain of command we go, right up to the police chief if necessary. I will not be taken advantage of in this way, and neither should anyone else. The cabbies just want cash – but I don’t care, and it’s not my problem. Not so long as there’s a Visa/MC sticker in the window.

The program is full of flaws and due to many talks with quite a few cab drivers, they always wind up getting the short end of the stick. Whether it be from people commiting fraud with stolen credit cards. Or the machine accepting the card and then people disputing charges which requires the cab driver to take time out of his day to get his money from the credit card services which charge an insane amount for doing nothing.

If you walk into the Gap and your credit card gets declined you can not walk out with the purchase. Well the same applies here. If you can not pay for your ride, why should that be the cab driver’s fault to suck up the loss?