PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catM to US News@ponder.cat · 3 months agoUS Treasury confirms the end of the pennywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@sh.itjust.worksusa@midwest.socialbbc_us@rss.ponder.catBBC@metawire.eu
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minus-squareFiveMacs@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·3 months agoCanada did it. If you pay in cash, it’s rounded up (obviously) If you pay digitally, nothing changed. Over a decade, you probably won’t even lose a dollar unless you only pay in cash for everything.
minus-squareEntheon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·3 months agoI don’t have faith that the US can do such a straightforward system without gouging
minus-squarebuffing_lecturerlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 months agoIf you pay cash its rounded to nearest 5¢, up or down. At least this has been the case in my experience.
Canada did it.
If you pay in cash, it’s rounded up (obviously)
If you pay digitally, nothing changed.
Over a decade, you probably won’t even lose a dollar unless you only pay in cash for everything.
I don’t have faith that the US can do such a straightforward system without gouging
If you pay cash its rounded to nearest 5¢, up or down. At least this has been the case in my experience.
Yes, my bad. To the nearest 5 cent.