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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Stationed in WEST Germany when Uncle Sam decided it was feasible to eliminate penny transactions at military facilities. You could spend your pennies, but no pennies returned, the round up/down was used. It worked.

^^^^^^^ This.

How many of you carry pennies around in your pocket? I haven't for years.

Just do it.

Always have .99 cents worth of change in my pocket.
Three quarters, two dimes. one nickle and four pennies !

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Originally posted by cparktd:
No. I think eliminating the penny should be put off until we go to all digital currency.

And I hope that is not in my lifetime!

Eliminating the penny will be the starting stair to eliminating hard currency, and that will give full digital access to all funds spend, held, payroll, privacy will die when that happens...

Musk for all his help, is still a technology pioneer and dumping hard currency one coin at a time is the way to move to government held digital currency.

Which leads to full tracking of all transactions, and increased revenue and power to the digital technology sector, worldwide...

Okay, so I hear a lot of bitchin' about the cost associated with making a one cent coin, but please tell us how much it costs to print a hundred dollar bill and the associated price difference with those.

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Originally posted by jgerge222:
Always have .99 cents worth of change in my pocket.
Three quarters, two dimes. one nickle and four pennies !

That coin combo adds up to $1.04.

It's a wooden nickel!