Treasury Department set to phase out the penny

[hlthe2b]

48. Cash registers ring up the prices the owner charges. THis is idiotic, Bernard. I thought you had compassion.

And, no, it is not rocket surgery. Both a change in coinage and tariffs will give those remaining cash-accepting businesses every excuse possible to abuse the poor who cannot just pull out a credit/debit card or flash their IPHONE. The government does not set prices and every chain gas station/convenience store in the US have different prices for cash versus credit cards--for different reasons and different end results but it illustrated that the business can use these excuses to discriminate on pricing. This isn't Canada.

I don't really think you are unable to recognize this. Nor do I really think you don't care. But you aren't showing it. I really wish you'd been around when we had several very sincere yet "down on their luck" homeless posters that regularly interacted and advocated for policies for the poor. Many of us tried to help them--especially one in particular (Bobbolink, who has since stopped posting), but they really did open up our eyes to that which we routinely ignore--because what's a few pennies to you and I, right?