{"id":2291,"date":"2011-10-05T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T16:37:54","slug":"the-durbin-debit-card-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-durbin-debit-card-tax","title":{"rendered":"The Durbin Debit Card Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old joke, &#8220;I&#8217;m from the Government and I&#8217;m here to help&#8221; comes to mind with <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/29\/pf\/bank_of_america_debit_fee\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America&#8217;s recent decision to begin charging its customers $5.00 a month for using their debit cards for merchant transactions<\/a>. The initial reaction is to make a pile on BOA, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2011\/10\/03\/morning-bell-ready-for-a-debit-card-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Brownfield at the Foundry.org traces the source of the problem (and it&#8217;s a BIG problem) to Dick Durbin&#8217;s (D-IL) amendment to last year&#8217;s Dodd-Frank Wall Street financial reform bill.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old joke, &#8220;I&#8217;m from the Government and I&#8217;m here to help&#8221; comes to mind with Bank of America&#8217;s recent decision to begin charging its customers $5.00 a month for using their debit cards for merchant transactions. The initial reaction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-durbin-debit-card-tax\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}