Some thoughts for your pennies - Page 2

Griff · 05-15-2002, 06:32 AM

There was a suggestion in Liberty magazine that we replace pennies with lock washers, since they both cost about 3 cents to manufacture nobody would "counterfeit" washers and treasury would save the cost of manufacture.

verbatim · 05-15-2002, 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by Griff
There was a suggestion in Liberty magazine that we replace pennies with lock washers, since they both cost about 3 cents to manufacture nobody would "counterfeit" washers and treasury would save the cost of manufacture.

Woohoo! Im already rich!

Let's just ditch the penny already. Its 4cents either way, I lose change that small all the time. Its no biggie.

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I don't think the rounding is worth anything. Those people who use it to argue for the penny are silly.

Tony, absolutely.

05-15-2002, 06:32 AM	#16
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	There was a suggestion in Liberty magazine that we replace pennies with lock washers, since they both cost about 3 cents to manufacture nobody would "counterfeit" washers and treasury would save the cost of manufacture. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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