[jcon40]

Who stoops any more for a penny ?

Time we adapt our currency too

Make pennies worth a nickel
A nickel worth a dime
A dime a quarter
Quarters bucks
Bucks - 5’s
And so on.

Yes kidding

[kearnyirish2]

We’re not far from that; Canada has already gone that route. They don’t make pennies anymore, and their dollars (and two dollars) are coins only. I see more and more small businesses here dropping the penny already, and as I understand it, it costs more than one cent to make each one.

[KarlInOhio]

Inflation has been about 4x since 1978 (the year I started paying attention to money) and 25x since 1913 (the year the Federal Reserve was founded to give us a stable dollar < /s>). Even at 4x the penny should be eliminated as worthless and the dollar should be a coin with $5 on the bubble as to whether it should be a coin or bill). And bring back $500 bills because $100s are too heavy for serious criminals to carry around.

[upchuck]

I can see doing away with pennies and rounding everything up or down to the nearest nickle.

[EvilCapitalist]

I stoop for pennies. Nickels, dimes, and quarters too.

[trebb]

I still stoop for a penny - nothing better to do...

In their case, instead of making things worth more, they made $10,000 worth a buck - or probably even less....then decided to re-rate it on the "upward" scale.

[bert]

Currency and change are irrelevant if you pay everything with a plastic card