As long as banks impose a fee upon the merchant, they are unable to use these cards.
In our case there is no legal method to charge the taxpayer a fee to cover the swipe fee, and there is no will to force banks to waive the swipe fee for government transactions.
I can pay some bills online using a credit card if we use a third party to be the intermediate, and we agree to pay the ~ $3.95 convenience fee.
Yes, I figured that was why they weren’t set up to take credit cards at the former location - I have no idea if they got some kind of agreement with a bank to waive the fee or not. Do banks also charge for debit transactions? I ask because we stayed at a charitable location when a family member was in the hospital and instead of putting the charges on a credit card (which would cost the location the fee), I used my debit and discussed with the worker on site - she thanked me for considering that fee (we were there for a month so it wasn’t just one fee). But if the bank charges for debit then I didn’t do them any favor