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Originally Posted by 619TF
Ah yes, but not everyone has money to just throw away. Sorry but all those "worthless" pennies add up to actual dollars. Why would someone just give that away to a business that hasn't earned it.. especially someone who has little in the first place?
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As I wrote, sales would be rounded up
or down to the nearest nickel or dime.
It would average out to the same money, a wash.
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Originally Posted by 619TF
"Hassling" with coins? First world problem. Not an issue to basically always have less than a dollar in coins in pocket if one is able to do math. Good employees and savvy customers should be able to handle that without having to rely on a register to calculate. If you can count to 100 you can handle figuring out change and most registers seem to do that now already anyway.
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Not everyone is able to do the math.
Not all employees are good.
Not all customers are savvy.
So your 'people should' arguments for keeping pennies is weak.
Some other people will never be the way that you, or I, feel they "should" be.
But people are how they are, so public policy should accommodate this unalterable reality.
Should can be a dangerous word.
People "should" wear seat belts, not steal, not drive drunk, not assault others, etc.
But since "should" does not make it so, laws and punishments are a part of public policy.