That would really tip the playing field against high-benefit cards that rakeoff as much as 3% of sales revenue and hand much of it back to consumers in rebates, air miles or other lagniappe.
In fact, government service today is worse, since much of it entails an unjust taking of wealth from earners for receipt by the undeserving, even as government bureaucrats rakeoff perhaps a quarter or more of the transferred loot.
In the top of the fifth, the grounds crew scurried out to rake the mound after it became slippery in the rain and Deduno walked Alex Rios on five pitches to lead off the inning.