all is true to my belief based on word of mouth from both drivers and office management, and what i verbally heard or seen with my own eyes. first off, i started driving cab in the late 1980's. back then you could buy a "TAG"(which is the cab license # registered to the taxi) for around $ 6,000.00 ,now if you want one, there around 100,000 dollars, and guess who owns most of the tags. in the early 90's, the city decided to put a freeze on the number of tags issued in the city of Milwaukee.and mike sanfalipo and his partner and brother Joe,who then were partners in a cab company called city vet taxi,and eventually put city vet out of business, as well as brew city., decided before the freeze to start buying up all the available tags up for sale, as well as buying up all the tags from all the old timers by offering them double for what the tag was worth. as they did this, there fleet of cabs obviously grew, to hundreds.they then started American united . united has 65% of Milwaukee's bus
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