I'll ride the horse at the grocery for a penny if I damn well please

if you can find a horse who'll take pennies these days what with gas prices rising

How is the penny pointless? Try making changer without pennies

it's round

penny also costs twice as much as it's worth to make.

if we just round to the nearest 5 or 0 it wont be an issue. there are countries that have already dont it with no problems.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U
www.youtube.com/watch?v=77C47XYm_3c

Might as well retire all money and go electronic

we could but that would require everyone to have a bank account to do any sort of transaction. Even if it's just a vending machine.

yeah, that couldn't back fire in anyway

Yah I mean it's not like we have anything at all similar in place already.
And it's not like removing the penny won't cause a **** storm of it's own or anything.

I was just thinking about this yesterday. Everything you buy would be track-able and the information could be stored and collected. I feel that humans need the feeling that they have privacy in the things they do to function well in a society. I believe that as you take away humans' freedom to commit all wrongs (for example, putting speed regulators on all cars so that speeding is impossible), and freedom to privacy, you'll create mental illness among the population and generations of irresponsible adults.

Hey, that's great. Except that already happens . Despite what you might think, no one keeps thousands of dollars under their matress.

It resolves more problems than it causes.
Its essentially the same system was have now, where most people opt to use credit or debit cards over cash.
It wouldn't be easy obviously, but it solves so many problems that the resources needed to hammer out the details would be much lower than the problems that paper money creates.

No, you're just too stupid to understand the issues .

You said that two hours ago retard.
Why don't you actually spend 2 minutes to come up with a real argument instead of saying "herp, derp, u r wrong" that is, assuming you have the capability to say anything besides "no", and "good night".

l knew you didn't have the capacity . Thanks for proving me right.

Pssst... you aren't making yourself look better, much worse if anything.

Damn I can't to swipe my debit card to get a ******* gumball.

big ****** deal, just buy some gum somewhere else