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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;debordj, post: 1074763, member: 23344&quot;]On the front page of Yahoo - article from Kiplinger&#039;s Magazine...talking about getting rid of the cent.&nbsp; Title says Penny, not my term!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Link:</p><p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/111756/when-it-comes-to-the-penny-washington-makes-no-sense" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/111756/when-it-comes-to-the-penny-washington-makes-no-sense" rel="nofollow">http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/111756/when-it-comes-to-the-penny-washington-makes-no-sense</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Not really a great article and doesn&#039;t give ANY alternate ideas.&nbsp; &nbsp; Rounding up to the nearest nickel seems like the cheapest and easiest way, but I would hate to see old Abe go.&nbsp; I love getting those new shiny shield cents in my change these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>My biggest problem with the article is that it says it costs 1.6 cents to make one cent...but they aren&#039;t single use items...their production could be amortized across the decades the cents could be used.&nbsp; Sure it&#039;s monetary value is only 1 cent, but it doesn&#039;t cost a full dollar to print a dollar bill...unless you screw them up and have to shred millions of them!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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