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Old May 14, 2019 | 11:53 am
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Originally Posted by comptalk
If they were to remove the rewards from the credit cards, I'd probably go back to cash and checks. I am not using a service that provides no benefit to me. Since I pay my balances of every two weeks or so (I hate debt), it doesn't matter to me.
I think there'd still be a use for credit cards in that scenario given that the US payments infrastructure still isn't as good as it could be (especially around security). I probably would just stick to one credit card from one issuer though.

Of course, this all assumes that interchange is actually capped on credit cards. I highly doubt that'll happen any time soon (if ever), but I can see merchants gaining the right to reject higher-tier cards while keeping the ability to accept debit and lower-tier credit cards. Who knows how that would affect things.
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