Which of these do you despise most?
- Surprise fees on medical bills
- Surprise hotel booking fees
- Surprise airline booking fees
- Surprise fees on concert tickets (like Taylor Swift)
- Surprise bank fees
- Surprise home rental application fees
- Surprise credit card fees
- Surprise cable fees
- Surprise cell phone fees
If you hear Democrats talking about "junk fees," they are talking about all of the above. And you don’t have to choose -- together, we can fight all of them.
Two of our top allies have already begun taking on junk fees -- Lina Khan, who chairs the FTC, and Rohit Chopra, who chairs Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
But more can be done by Congress. President Biden put junk fees in the headlines when he called for national legislation in this year’s State of the Union, saying:
I know how unfair it feels when a company overcharges you and gets away with it…
We’ll ban surprise “resort fees” that hotels tack on to your bill. These fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren’t even resorts.
We’ll make cable internet and cell phone companies stop charging you up to $200 or more when you decide to switch to another provider.
We’ll cap service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events and make companies disclose all fees upfront.
And we’ll prohibit airlines from charging up to $50 round trip for families just to sit together. Baggage fees are bad enough – they can’t just treat your child like a piece of luggage.
Americans are tired of being played for suckers. Pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act so companies stop ripping us off.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- The PCCC Team (@BoldProgressive)
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