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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3209350, member: 78298&quot;]No. You&#039;re not getting it. It doesn&#039;t work like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say I have $100,000 worth of pennies.</p><p>Your innocent change now gives me $500,000. Thanks.</p><p>You say you are not changing $1 bills into fives, and $10 into $50&#039;s,</p><p>but that is what happens when you change my $100,000 into $500,000.</p><p>Because what if my $100,000 was in 1&#039;s or 10&#039;s instead of cents?</p><p>Now I have $500,000 because it was in cents.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t work.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing to do is get rid of cent. Many threads here on that.</p><p>Canada did it, and it&#039;s fine. Round every thing off to .05 or .10.</p><p>Most transactions are electronic anyway, and those you don&#039;t have to round off. Current population of cents can still be used for many years. Despite the doomsday panic people who claim they will be hoarded and we will run out of cents immediately. Zinc cents that rot in your hand while you are waiting to spend them are pointless to hoard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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