Reply #22: If enough citizens would raise a ruckus about it,

[jtuck004]

and Elizabeth Warren was confirmed, they might attach a rider to a bill which would stop this silly kind of crap.

The person I was answering was asking if they could more or less just ignore it, and I was suggesting that they could not,
and that the only relief might be legislative action.

But you are quite correct, Congress (and the Fed, Treasury, etc) behave as if they are pre-owned by those who
have interests in direct competition with most taxpayers, and there seems little motivation to change it.