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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Making change
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:27:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-14, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
> ...
>> 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