The government is ripping us off

[moogle1]

"After a run-up in metal prices, the U.S. Mint announces that its cost for producing a penny has risen to 1.73 cents, while that for a nickel has grown to 8.34 cents

Comments

[rubberbandiv]

We should have, like, one-cent bills. Or something. What's the least expensive and most plentiful metal right now? It isn't copper, I know that.

[moogle1]

Step 1. Ban pennies and nickels.
Step 2. ????
Step 3. PROFIT!!!

(actually there is no need for a step 2)

[rubberbandiv]

I'm working on how to make all prices round numbers. Would be so terrible to force pricing in stores so that the total, with tax, is a round number (or at least payable with quarters)?

[moogle1]

Terrible? More like AWESOME.

Another step forward would be to include sales tax with the sticker price. (That would make it easier to make all prices round numbers, too.)

[multicoloredwiz]

did you read that thing about walmart? holy shit.

"Customers looking at the Web site's product pages for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Planet of the Apes, for instance, are steered toward "similar items" such as Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream/Assassination of MLK and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson."

[rinku]

I wouldn't mind the smallest denomination being the dime or even the quarter. They could keep the other stuff in circulation of they want, and just not make any more of it, like they did with half-cents in the past

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_half_cent_coin

[konami]

Of course, the mint doesn't have to act, Business' can conspire to get rid of denominations of money.

Like in the case in England, they still circulate 1P and even 2P, but many of the large stores will round all prices down(or up) to £1, or to the 5p's if needed. The result is nothing but good.

[konami]

This is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard, how the fuck...