Sujet : Re: Making change
De : chamilton5280 (at) *nospam* invalid.com (Cindy Hamilton)
Groupes : rec.food.cookingDate : 14. May 2025, 12:27:10
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On 2025-05-14, songbird <
songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
Dave Smith wrote:
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We stopped using pennies more than a decade ago. Nobody misses them.
Totals are round up or down. It was a real waste to have a heavy coin
that was worth so little. Gone are the days when a kid could go into a
candy store and waste 10 minutes of the store owner's time figuring out
how much of each he could get with his three pennies.
>
if the goobermint would have a slightly deflationary policy
they could eventually restore the value of the dollar and thus
the value of the penny.
unfortunately they don't take the long view so the chances
of this actually happening are probably about zero.
Restore the value of the dollar? To what?
Do you mean "bring prices down so that a penny is worth something
again"?
Nah. That's not a good idea.
-- Cindy Hamilton
Making change
Re: Making change
