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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 683410, member: 12789&quot;]They were talking about nuking cents back in the mid 1970s when copper first started appreciating in price.&nbsp; The cent has no purchasing power by itself unless in some novelty gumball machine or a super market that has the penny horsey ride for kiddies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cents exist for the purpose of sales tax, and until or if people are willing to pay more tax or upped prices due to rounding up, cents will continue to be around.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing we do not have like back in the 1970&#039;s are cent shortages.&nbsp; Back then banks were even paying 55 cents a roll for cents so they had them to give out.</p><p><br /></p><p>As noted above, there are trillions of them out there, nearly as many as the dollars going down the drain for all the government pork projects.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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