EVERYTHING THAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICA IN ONE PHRASE: “While New York City riders have increasingly more choices in how to get from here to there with the rise of e-hailing apps — and lawmakers grapple with how to regulate the booming industry — the drivers who keep cars moving are stuck in the middle.”

As Michael Walsh writes “regulate” is the AP’s dog whistle for “how to put Uber out of business or, at the very least, fork over large sums of money to the city’s graft merchants in exchange for being allowed to operate a private business within the borders of the United States of America.”

RELATED: Tim Cavanaugh at City Journal on “California’s Uber Hunt:” “Uber’s very existence is an advertisement for the free market. It’s an obviously less-regulated initiative that has produced measurable, positive outcomes across a wide spectrum. No wonder people hate it so much.”