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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EagleEye, post: 645146, member: 16990&quot;]Why do we need the cent? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only reason is to facilitate state sales tax. If the states would allow rounding on tax on a per sale basis, then businesses could round down every purchase to the next 5¢. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If the states don&#039;t want to do that, they could issue sales tax tokens in the cent denomination. These could be made privately and sold to merchants to make change when and if the current cents become scarce. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These tax tokens would become very diverse and would make money for the states when collectors keep them for their collection. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If neither of these ideas fly, the old &quot;take a cent, leave a cent&quot; works just as well, only it would be a bit more used since it would be mandatory - if you were two cents from the higher 5¢ price you would take a cent. Three cents from the lower 5¢ price, the merchant would put it in the bin. No exceptions. Actually you don&#039;t need many coins at all for this to work. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course if you pay by credit card, there is no rounding, since no coins were needed. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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