You are affected whether you use cash or credit. The costs associated with these fees are passed onto the consumer by the merchant, so the price of the product is adjusted for everyone, not just the folks who use credit.
No kidding? You mean I have to help support all the blood sucking leeches of society? Wow, woulda thought?
Thank goodness John Conyers, and all the other do-gooders in congress are there to save me from my plight, what would I do without them there to save me from myself?