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One cent currencies
Well, the Canadian penny is going to be phased out, adding it to the grave of other single cent currencies
I can't believe governments spend more than a cent to produce a cent... Yet keep doing it. It will be bittersweet to see the penny go, but all the same, what took so long? Why do some other countries keep producing such things?
I can't believe governments spend more than a cent to produce a cent... Yet keep doing it. It will be bittersweet to see the penny go, but all the same, what took so long? Why do some other countries keep producing such things?
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Pennies are annoying. They're only useful for exact change anyway, and it's kind of stupid.
Because of X.99 prices.
The UK is still minting one pence pieces AFAIK. It's actually a bit of a pain if you end up with lots of them in your pocket because it's really fiddly to count out payment for anything using the pennies, especially if you're in a queue and feel under pressure not to waste everyone's time.
^^Wouldn't those just be replaced with X.9 prices and X9.9 prices?
Or rather, x.95 prices, since removing pennies doesn't necessarily imply removing nickels.
Oh, right. I knew that >.>
Mildly related (to the context, anyway), I find it rather dastardly that Stephen Harper decided to include that part in. We're going to leave a bunch of people out of jobs, social programs anemic, raise the damn retirement age, oh, but we're also getting rid of the penny so the media will talk about that instead.
Other than a crack about "pinching pennies out of existence", the Star didn't bring that up on the front page at all and talked about the other changes instead. So good on them I guess.