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Interesting. Services like my property taxes and electric bill charge me an extra fee for credit card payment (which I prefer since it is push and also rewards) but they only offer direct bank transfer as the other electronic method which I hate since it is pull. I doubt I'll seem them adopt fednow though.

My solution for property taxes has been to just set billpay every year to send them a check at the expected intervals.

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> property taxes and electric bill charge me an extra fee for credit card payment (which I prefer since it is push and also rewards)

Precisely why credit cards are a hidden parasite on overall economic activity. They incentivize customers to use to get rewards and then take a ~4% cut of the payment from the merchant. So that's why merchants charge you extra fee they need to make up that 4% cost somewhere and it's either fees or raising prices even though you might not realize it.

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