Nanny Wants New Credit Card Rules

by McQ | May 14, 2009 5:41 pm

Why not just wrap us all up in bubble wrap and bottle feed us?[1]

“We like credit cards — they are valuable vehicles for many people,” said Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, the chairman of the Senate banking committee and author of the measure now being considered by the Senate. “It’s when these vehicles are being abused by the card issuers at the expense of the consumers that we must step in and change the rules.”

Doug Bandow[2] provides the proper pithy reply to Sen. Dodd:

“Abused by the card issuers.” Of course. The very same card issuers who kidnapped people, forced consumers to apply for cards at gunpoint, and convinced merchants to refuse to accept checks or cash in order to force everyone to pull out “plastic.” The poor helpless consumers who had nothing to do with the fact that they wandered amidst America’s cathedrals of consumption buying wiz-bang electronic goods, furniture, CDs, clothes, and more. The stuff just magically showed up in their homes, with a charge being entered against them against their will. It’s all the card issuers’ fault!

Certainly card issuers are raising their rates arbitrarily to very high rates. And, as I did recently, card holders are calling them up and very politely saying “stuff it – and while you’re at it do it with my canceled card”.

Credit cards aren’t a ‘right’, and the fact that someone gets themselves into trouble with them doesn’t make them a ‘victim’ deserving of special legislation to “right a wrong”.

What in the world ever happened to individual responsibility and accepting the consequences for your actions?

[Crossposted at QandO[3]]

Endnotes:
  1. and bottle feed us?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/us/politics/13cong.html?scp=1&sq=congress%20seizes%20on%20credit%20cards&st=cse
  2. Doug Bandow: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/05/14/of-course-it-is-the-banks-fault/
  3. QandO: http://www.qando.net

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