Occupy Verizon!

Verizon, which ain't cheap for anything to begin with, is now going to start a $2 fee for any payment by phone or Internet when you use a credit card. (The fee will not apply to automatic payments by credit cards.)

Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payment - Yahoo! Finance

Occupy Verizon! Boycott like people did over BoA's fees! Otherwise, this charge will be coming to a bill near your mail box.

Yes, I just came to post that myself:

http://www.reuters.com/article/20...13I2011123

Seems there was a huge uproar from customers about it, and Verizon backed down. Good -- and everyone should now know to create a big uproar any time ANYONE tries this.

And I remind, this only became possible about a year or year and a half ago, when Congress passed a law that for the first time allowed businesses to charge a fee to people using credit cards. Until then, it was not legal to charge a surcharge for use of a credit card (although word games have been played by gas stations for years about not charging a surcharge  but giving a cash discount -- something never challenged in court). Congress should not have done that, and Obama should not have signed that law. Businesses don't have to take a credit card, but if they do, they should not get to charge extra for taking it. The idea from the get go was to reduce the need to carry a lot of cash around all the time, move toward a cashless society (or at least a less-cash society). If the push now will be to go back to a cash society, then expect street robberies to be on the rise.