I wish there were a better way to actually get an answer from your rep. These emails really don't work. Even when they come in en masse they don't work. I know people who work for representatives and manage these email accounts. They have filtering rules to pick these sorts of emails up and and throw it in a folder never to be read. Especially those websites that automatically generate the email for you, those are almost guarenteed to not even have a low level staffer see them. Catch some choice lines from the body and straight to spam.

I asked these people how constituents are to reach out toward their representatives for issues that matter to them, and to be honest what they said was that the only way you are going to get a response is if you are representing an organization or a corporation capable of financing advertising campaigns that can influence large swaths of the electorate in question. A single voter will never be answered by a state level or higher rep, if you are lucky you might just get a canned response from the staff outlining the candidate's platform on the issue. If you are a representative from a special interest lobbying group though with thousands in the war chest, that will get you a long phone call or even face time with the representative. This is how the game is played on both sides of the aisle.

Great. Another several hundred pages to the legal code, another several hundred pages of regulations that all but 3 people will have the time to read and understand. No thank you. This country already has too many laws and regulations. We don't need more.

How about leaving the free market alone?

>How about leaving the free market alone?

Intuit has been aggressively anti-consumer and this particular instance is no different. They exist to benefit themselves at the expense of the average joe. Until the free market stops operating in said fashion, your question will continuously earn a resounding, "Nah," from me.

Edit: I am particularly perplexed by this post, given that OP recently suggested governments start "selling, if not mandating, its own operating system software to consumers and businesses alike" because they felt like consistent OS churn resulted in too much unnecessary e-waste. I don't disagree with the concern about e-waste, but I'm having trouble squaring away the dueling perspectives here.

> How about leaving the free market alone?

Well, if the free market worked, Equifax would have been sued into oblivion right now and no other company would be stupid enough to try BS like this.

But the free market doesn't work, so you need to protect yourself. The only way we can protect ourselves from greedy corporations is through onerous regulations with teeth.

Intuit aggressively lobbies to keep the IRS from doing tax reforms. Who's actually messing with the free market here?

Nope. I am in the free market too and my "best alternative to negotiated agreement" (BATNA) is dog droppings, ergo I have a vested interest to level the freedom of the playing field.

The free market is me emailing my representative and asking them to change this.

If you don't like democracy in action, I suggest you move to Somalia.