On: Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

[hvb2]

> Now we'll be back to a situation where customers who use a cheap payment method will be subsidizing customers who use an expensive payment method.

And guess who wins there...

Just curious, how is this not painfully obvious and so there's opposition to it? Nobody is expecting this to lower prices, right...

[WheatMillington → hvb2]

It's popular politically because to voters it just looks like "our party will take away that expensive surcharge and make it cheaper at the till!". Unfortunately that message actually works.