I didn't say that. And they're not doing that.

What I said was that they stopped lobbying congress and that the market can't be grown.

I said nothing about letting it "evaporate and disappear".

Allowing the creation of a federal site to do free tax returns seems like it can only lead to the evaporation of their current customers. Who would pay them $150+ when you can just go to irs.gov/taxreturn (or whatever it is) and do it for free?

The lobbying was the only thing preventing that, so the stopping of lobbying seems like it is entirely giving up on the market.

> Allowing the creation of a federal site to do free tax returns seems like it can only lead to the evaporation of their current customers. Who would pay them $150+ when you can just go to irs.gov/taxreturn (or whatever it is) and do it for free?

Again, you keep saying "allow", like they have a choice. They kinda don't. Congress got really pissed at them as did the public.

> The lobbying was the only thing preventing that, so the stopping of lobbying seems like it is entirely giving up on the market.

Honestly, I would say it's not the only thing preventing it. And they're not giving up on the market.