Um- NO one "likes to pay taxes," E.G., are you telling us you like paying taxes?  "Uber doesn't like paying wages?"  Um- the Uber drivers I know (do you know any?)  all enjoy the wage they earn, love the flexibility of their hours, and love the undeclared tips they make, (even though it's technically not required to tip them).  If people don't want to work for Uber at a given wage, they can work for someone else.
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Uber will win and I predict them growing strong partnerships with driver-less car technology like Google and Tesla: their barriers to entry in such a great market and their opposition is the biggest from two sources: The government and their entrenched relationship with labor laws and the unions-- and crotchety nay-sayers like you. You're the kind who only bought a touch-tone phone because they stopped making rotary phones.