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Stop Letting Credit Card Companies Squeeze Small Businesses

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By Carter Dougherty
| Inequality.org Verified
A cluster of lawmakers — Democrats and Republicans — have teamed up to reform the system via a bill called the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), which would bust open the Visa-Mastercard duopoly. Put simply, merchants could use other networks to complete transactions (yes, they do exist). That would force the existing players to compete for the business of small firms through lower prices, not just jam them with higher costs.
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Opinion: Stop letting credit card companies squeeze small businesses

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By Carter Dougherty
| The Enterprise (Spring Hope, NC) Verified
When a powerful industry rakes in billions for doing something that should have a negligible cost, it will say almost anything to keep that river of money flowing. It was true of the auto industry that constantly fought safety upgrades. Ditto for the oil companies that denied the reality of climate change. And it’s true of the Wall Street giants who make using a credit card so expensive.
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Stop Letting Credit Card Companies Squeeze Small Businesses

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By Carter Dougherty
| CounterPunch Verified
When a powerful industry rakes in billions for doing something that should have a negligible cost, it will say almost anything to keep that river of money flowing. It was true of the auto industry that constantly fought safety upgrades. Ditto for the oil companies that denied the reality of climate change. And it’s true of the Wall Street giants who make using a credit card so expensive.
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