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Michael Burgess: “There has not been this big of an upheaval in how consumers pay for goods and services since computers replaced the old…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2015
There has not been this big of an upheaval in how consumers pay for goods and services since computers replaced the old knuckle-busting manual imprinters in the 1980s.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess compares the changes in payment methods to past technological shifts.

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