Go Canada

[Warlock]

Now only we can to the same.

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[Alter-Fox]

You know, somehow, I agree with the Harper government on this. (And I never agree with the Tories on anything so it just goes to show), I think getting rid of the penny was a very good move... unlike most of the Conservative voters who hate the idea .
Just so you get an idea of what Canadians think about it .

[roid]

ohoh, I'd watched that John Green vid mentioned at the end.
From a country that abolished pennies cents a while back, what happens is that a lot of stores just round their actual prices (particularly for cheap items) to the nearest sensible 5 cents. I don't mean it's rounded when you buy it, i mean the price is actually written in 5 cent intervals, it just saves brain conversions.

ps: pennys are cents right?

[TigerRaptor]

The video does make cents.

[Sirius]

ps: pennys are cents right?

Yes. Except in the UK, where they're just pennies.

[Alter-Fox]

ohoh, I'd watched that John Green vid mentioned at the end.
From a country that abolished pennies cents a while back, what happens is that a lot of stores just round their actual prices (particularly for cheap items) to the nearest sensible 5 cents. I don't mean it's rounded when you buy it, i mean the price is actually written in 5 cent intervals, it just saves brain conversions.

That would be very hard to do here without changing the entire system of how the sales tax works. As it stands some Canadian government a long time ago made the boneheaded decision that the prices we see on the items we buy are not what we actually pay, the sales tax gets tacked on after. I'd love to see a decision to actually include the sales tax in the actual price tags but this is Stephen Harper we're talking about, he already made a very good decision to get rid of the penny and I don't think he can keep it up for another one.

[Isaac]

The video does make cents.

It's a big change.

[Krom]

That would be very hard to do here without changing the entire system of how the sales tax works. As it stands some Canadian government a long time ago made the boneheaded decision that the prices we see on the items we buy are not what we actually pay, the sales tax gets tacked on after. I'd love to see a decision to actually include the sales tax in the actual price tags but this is Stephen Harper we're talking about, he already made a very good decision to get rid of the penny and I don't think he can keep it up for another one.

Canada doesn't have a monopoly on that particular brand of stupid, America and a couple other countries I have been to all do the same thing, so I highly doubt it will be corrected anytime soon.

[fliptw]

The problem with including the sales tax is it adds costs more for business if the tax changes. Canada's GST also isn't applied to everything.

People that ★■◆● about the tax not being included are those that can't do a simple bit of math.

[Alter-Fox]

You could just make the businesses responsible for keeping track of the tax and adding it to their own prices before they put those prices up. Which only would mean that the price you see in the store is slightly higher than the store's actual price; I guess it depends on how you look at it.

All I was saying was that roid's idea about having prices in multiples of five-cents wouldn't make any difference unless the sales tax was part of the price thas is in multiples of five cents -- when the sales tax is tacked on afterwards it's still likely going to give you some number that isn't a multiple of five cents, especially when the tax is such an unwieldy number like 13 percent and that's actually made up of two taxes... but you're in Alberta, so you're the one who doesn't need to worry about one of them. Anyway, this is simply the laws of probability, and I should know those laws -- I had a summer job as a statistician last year. Consider that the next time you imply my math skills must be horrible .

[Warlock]

I say we do it to there just useless zinc and copper and i hate counting them.

but think about it how mant people really pay with cash any more working in IT for a cstores chine we see more card usage then cash.

[CDN_Merlin]

I say we do it to there just useless zinc and copper and i hate counting them.

but think about it how mant people really pay with cash any more working in IT for a cstores chine we see more card usage then cash.

Dude, using a comma at certain places and using spell check would make it easier to understand what you're trying to say.

[Alter-Fox]

I pay cash everywhere because it's easier to control how much I spend by having a finite amount of cash, than using a debit card with my entire bank account available on it.

[Enzo-03]

I don't want to get rid of the penny.

I like the sound of as many coins jingling in my pants pockets as I can.

[Tunnelcat]

The penny isn't made out of copper anymore, it's only plated. The amount of copper required to even make a penny costs more than 1 cent. I'd vote to get rid of it. It takes up space in my pocket and most of the time it's gross and corroded because the crappy metal they make it from doesn't resist the elements or hand oils.