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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7577582, member: 105098&quot;]They would actually reduce production of them if there wasn&#039;t a demand for them. Of the banks didn&#039;t order them they wouldn&#039;t get shipped out to the armored carriers that order them for the banks and the production would also lower.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not as if they are makin billions of them a year and just dumping them, there&#039;s a demand for them in commerce. It&#039;s the guys and girls that get them and toss them on the ground or in a jar or draw and immediately stop their use in commerce that&#039;s the problem and you&#039;re never going to get them to change their ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>They could bring back the steel core with the plating like on the zincolns and they will hold up longer than the zincoln and be under 1 cent to produce for a bit I believe. It won&#039;t have the corrosion problems the steelies had until the copper plating gets compromised and they won&#039;t corrode as fast as zinc does when the plating gets compromised and steel is cheaper than zinc.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s still a temporary answer because with metals the prices fluctuate due to demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m in no hurry to get my state sales tax of 7% rounded up to 10% when the cent gets removed.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like they are going to round it down to 5%, Or round it cumulatvely when they could just say &quot;let&#039;s raise the rate, it doesn&#039;t work now without the cent so instead of 7 cents on the dollar let&#039;s make it 10&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>And again the nickel is an even bigger loser than the cent is so that&#039;s gotta go too.</p><p><br /></p><p>How about revaluing the u.s. currency in general and increasing its buying power along with every other denomination? That&#039;s a solution also.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or how about revaluing the cent as a nickel, the nickel as a dime, a dime as 25 cent, and a quarter as 50 cents and&nbsp; kill the useless half dollar coin instead? That way we could even go back to pre-zincoln days. And not change the bills at all? Also a solution. And that would be a bit better long term.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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