Bank of America to charge $5/month for debit card swipes

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    Why does it cost banks more to process payments via debit card payments vs. check payments? Processing electrons through wires to a computer should cost less than delivering paper checks by truck and then mechanically sorting them.

    Banks should PAY stores or individuals for debit card use, not GET paid.
     
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    Enjoy your theoretical savings when you shop.
     
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    Luckily, I only theoretically shop, so I will be able to enjoy the full theoretical benefits.

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    The Durbin Amendment was passed in response to exhorbitant fee-gouging of merchants by the banks.

    The fact that banks are now gouging unprotected debit card users instead of gouging merchants which is now illegal can hardly be blamed on the government's impotent attempts to rein in the obscene profit-taking B of A and other large banks are engaged in at the expense of our country's financial viability.

    A total government takeover of B of A, Morgan/Chase, Wells Fargo and other criminal banking organizations sucking this country dry may be the only way to save our country from total collapse.
     
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    What about the poor, Barfo? What about the poor? Why do you want to increase their taxes?
     
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    I thought we'd decided to render the poor into lovely bars of soap for our executive washrooms?

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