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On 5/2/25 7:23 PM, super70s wrote:
In article <_q6cncVIffFpHon1nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/permanent-penny-production-bipartisan/
. . .
Um ... but how do you deal with taxes and
such that yield sub-nickel tabs ??? Do
you round down, or UP ???
Admittedly probably half the pennies in the
country are in big plastic water-jugs or
something. No real purchase power ... but
they CAN make the tabs balance.
Hmmm ... how about PLASTIC pennies ?
Good re-use of water bottles and such.
Put some kind of micro-barcode or
hologram in there to discourage easy fakes.
Pennies cost 3 and 1/2 cents to produce. Nickels cost 17 cents to
produce so they're even more "wasteful."
Next they'll be wanting to get rid of all coins and just "round it up to
a dollar." Pols gotta fuck the poor over at every opportunity especially Republicans.
In a statement issued by the Oregon senator, Merkley said that the continuing
production of pennies is the opposite of "common cents" in the use of taxpayer
dollars.
He made a funny!
The Marxists don't want ANY cash - only electronic
transactions they can spy on. Love Big Brother ...
or else.
IMHO plastic pennies, maybe nickels and dimes too, are
the small-change solution. Even WITH some kind of code
or hologram they'd be super CHEAP to make these days,
and think of the RECYCLING brownie points eh ?
METAL and working with metal is what's expensive these
days. Plastic small-change can be pressed out super
cheap and quick. PET plastic - water bottles - is tough
and long-lived, ideal. The press die could possibly be
micro-etched to reproduce a copper or silver colored
iridescent hologram in the right light. Pretty ! Hey,
I see holograms impressed in plastic films all the
time for a zillionth of a cent per square meter.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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