Retailers claim credit card swipe fees are driving inflation

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20. My wife and I hate credit and debit cards

We hate the cc fees, and hate there being a record of everywhere we go, everywhere and everything we eat, entertain ourselves with, what small presents we buy for our friends or family and a lot of etc.

The socialist states of eastern Europe, as well as their fascist soul brothers of earlier, were the control freak states—much like our current Republicans—and finally collapsed under the weight of all the information they amassed on their citizens. Universal use of credit cards practically relieves governments of the task. They can summon a person’s life history with one credit card record subpoena. We both visited the former East Germany, with its Nazi-style goose-stepping soldiers, sniper towers at the wall, the people we knew there terrified to meet us in the open because the socialist regime forbade more than four people to sit together at an open venue (café, etc.) and confiscated all newspapers and magazines from any westerners who came to visit. Can’t allow any free exchange of ideas or information can we? Credit cards facilitate that kind of state, and if I never liked it before, I sure as hell don’t like the idea of it when the Trumpanzees run our government agencies.