For some reason, I am concerned about this mundane issue.
One solution to removal of the penny: make them worth 5 cents and quit minting nickels. Makes perfect cents.
We should abolish the penny. Make the nickel smaller than a dime. Shrink the quarter to nickel size, and quit printing paper one-dollar bills. The current dollar coins are too similar to the quarters, and no one uses them when paper is still offered.
works for me!
ReplyDeleteI once floated the idea of the negative penny, which would be worth minus one cent. I liked it because I always had a peeve for prices that end in .98 or .99
ReplyDeleteSomehow it never caught on.
Watching The Wire and all the cash floating around, I wonder what eliminating the dollar bill would do for the drug trade? Probably not much because nothing cost a dollar but large amounts of single dollars would be much heavier.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for eliminating the penny, but see no advantage to eliminating the paper dollar. I would rather they eliminated the 50 cent piece and made a coin dollar closer to that size.
ReplyDeletejust round down 1 2 3 6 and round up 4 7 8 9
ReplyDeleteIn stores, I've sometimes had the experience of not getting all my change when there's a penny or two involved. I know that one cent is insignificant, but it drives me nuts when the transaction is inaccurate, especially if a store would potentially wind up with a bunch of extra pennies that are a significant sum.
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