http://www.canadian-business.info/government/a-penny-less-canada/ News, Markets and Economy - a Canadian Perspective Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:05:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.canadian-business.info/government/a-penny-less-canada/#comment-106 Oren Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:46:36 +0000 http://www.canadian-business.info/government/a-penny-less-canada/#comment-106 The smallest unit of currency in Australia is the 5 cent piece. They dropped the penny many years ago and integrated a system where everything is rounded up or down when you buy something in the stores. Living "penniless" is easy and if Australia has done it successfully, I don't see why we can't either. The smallest unit of currency in Australia is the 5 cent piece. They dropped the penny many years ago and integrated a system where everything is rounded up or down when you buy something in the stores. Living “penniless” is easy and if Australia has done it successfully, I don’t see why we can’t either.

]]> http://www.canadian-business.info/government/a-penny-less-canada/#comment-105 Phillie Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:50:10 +0000 http://www.canadian-business.info/government/a-penny-less-canada/#comment-105 The penny is robbing us of productivity by wasting our time. I suggest that we launch a National campaign to collect them all to assemble a penny mountain on Parliament Hill and then to apply the 20 or so billion of collected coins to pay down the National debt. Who wouldn't contribute these hard-to-get-rid-of coins that are sitting in jars to something useful, such as paying down the debt? The penny is robbing us of productivity by wasting our time. I suggest that we launch a National campaign to collect them all to assemble a penny mountain on Parliament Hill and then to apply the 20 or so billion of collected coins to pay down the National debt. Who wouldn’t contribute these hard-to-get-rid-of coins that are sitting in jars to something useful, such as paying down the debt?

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