I wish we had the political will to axe the penny in Civilian life. From what I've heard, the US Military has abolished it in the Commissaries.
But Civilian life? We're still stubbornly holding onto our Paper Dollars. I even think we'd still have the ha'penny if Congress hadn't been (slightly) more reasonable in the 19th century about things like "wasteful currency."
Some of it may also be that a lot of places would have to make their sales taxes multiples of 5%, and they prefer to creep up by single percentage points if at all possible... if the loudest voices would let them raise taxes at all.
Let's not get too much into that unless we make a Politics thread for it....
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
But Civilian life? We're still stubbornly holding onto our Paper Dollars. I even think we'd still have the ha'penny if Congress hadn't been (slightly) more reasonable in the 19th century about things like "wasteful currency."
Some of it may also be that a lot of places would have to make their sales taxes multiples of 5%, and they prefer to creep up by single percentage points if at all possible... if the loudest voices would let them raise taxes at all.
Let's not get too much into that unless we make a Politics thread for it....
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll