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It's a perfectly reasonable point that the company has all the information necessary and has the ability to automate a system which charges you only when you ac
by dotnet00 3y ago
It's a perfectly reasonable point that the company has all the information necessary and has the ability to automate a system which charges you only when you actually use the service, or hell, even just a system that emails you a reminder for not using the service you're paying for (Amazon kind of does this regarding their Music service as part of Prime, and I love them for it, even though I still don't use it). They don't actually have to burden society with the expectation of monitoring subscriptions.
You might as well be saying that people should take personal responsibility and do their taxes manually if they don't want to pay $50/year to use turbotax instead of pushing for a system where the government sends you an estimate that is likely to be correct for most people (since they're already doing that anyway).
- robertlagrant 3y ago> and do their taxes manually This isn't a great comparison. Looking through a bank statement once a month and clicking "end subscription" takes a few minutes for anyone. Doing your taxes manually is much more difficult. This is the easiest economic decision to choose to stop partipating in in the history of the earth.
- themaninthedark 3y agoThe average burden of the 1040 C-EZ is 1 hour 40 minutes. If we take the premise that 10 minutes to review your finances a month and then cancel unused subscriptions is not a burden(and good luck with canceling in 10 minutes) then doing basic taxes takes less time than a full yearly review. There are a great many people here who argue that doing ones taxes are an impossible burden and the government should automate it away since they have the (most of) the data. However here it should fall upon the individual to do all this labor in a case where the business has this information already compiled.