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Actually, they're the same person. Seriously.
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The objection to low denomination coins is a curiously American trait. It makes no sense to produce at taxpayer expense a currency which either holds less value than the overhead to produce, or is unusable within a period of that renders a banknote viable as the currency. Single enumerated coins work perfectly well in most countries where the single unit maintains value. Simply put the number of things whcih can be purchased with a single dollar is irrelevant - roughtly akin to fuel being quoted to a 10th of a penny. Which has always been rounded up.
Having lived through decimalisation in the UK, price points will be altered to match the availability of currency in denominations that drive to the least amount of change. Having lived when there where farthings and when certain confectionery could be purchased for a ha'penny (not a one half penny, but an old school "one a penny two a penny" ha'penny) the elimination of the denominations below a single penny, and indeed the thrupenny bit made perfect sense. In contemporary pricing the dollar coin would make more sense to produce and to use than would paper currency, and provide a more durable currency. For those concerned about the jingling of coins I recall a six pound coin carrier made available with the introduction of the Pound Sterling coin. Silicon rectangle about the size of a credit card which would retain the coins until needed. Now to find the probic vent!
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What I don't get is how certain groups of people (mostly liberals, but not exclusively) feel is that all we have to do is "talk" with others and we can "work things out". Reminds me of the president in the movie Independence Day when he talks to the alien. He asks what the aliens want us to do? The response is "die".
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As baby boomers and tail enders give way to gen X'ers and gen Y'ers, peoples' instincts to count out pennies at the McDonald's counter will be gone as well. That said, I suspect sales tax is the thing keeping pennies - ie, obsolete coins - alive. Things like 8.25% sales tax invariably lead to transaction totals with lots of digits to the right of the decimal point. And we, being a culture of exactness, like the numbers to be precise. That is, we fear getting ripped off by the accumulation of rounded up amounts and thus prefer to keep pennies in circulation where we can be sure we're not leaving any money on the counter no matter how small the amount In fact, some might even like to see the mill come back Doug .
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when the low currency gets dumpef, the inflation gets jacked up in conjunction with the falling economy. if we can find a working currency, one that is backed by gold and not just a glorified IOU, the economy would be on the road to recovery instead of being power-pranged into the ditch
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The difference is more profound than that. When I worked a register in the Stone Age, making change meant counting up to the next dollar from the final price while dropping coins into the customer's hand, then the same with increasingly larger bills up to the the amount he paid me. Today, the register displays the amount to be returned and the clerk counts up to that amount while pulling coins and bills out of the drawer. Bill
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Hey Now !
I LIKE POWR-PRANGING things into the DITCH (especially other's rockets with my special "loaner" engines ), just not the US Economy.
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