
Originally Posted by
ClydeR
During the Super Bowl, Trump decided that the U.S. Mint will no longer make pennies. When banks run out of pennies and businesses cannot get enough pennies to make change, what should happen? Should the business round up the change in the customer's favor, or should the business round down the change in the business' favor?
It's not as if eliminating the minting of pennies will eliminate cents in commercial transactions. Even if businesses set their prices in multiples of a nickel, they will still be required to collect and remit sales taxes to the nearest cent.
It reminds me of that time in Superman 3 when Richard Pryor figured out how to program a computer to steal all the rounded cents and add them to Pryor's paycheck, a scheme which of course culminated in a supercomputer that tried to take over the world.