KBEAR: Billings' Greatest Hits » Penny http://kbear.com Billings' Greatest Hits Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Cost More Than They're Worth http://kbear.com/cost-more-than-theyre-worth/ http://kbear.com/cost-more-than-theyre-worth/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:13:17 +0000 Greg Tillotson http://kbear.com/?p=124537 Is anyone else disturbed by the information I passed along this morning on the K-Bear morning show? If you missed it, I discovered the US Mint has released it now costs 2 pennies to make 1? Or how about a nickel costs 11 cents to make?  I think that I have discovered the hole in the deficit! I’m just saying…

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Canada, our neighbor to the North, has just eliminated the penny in their latest federal budget, following the example of nations like Australia and New Zealand. The Canadian national mint will stop producing the one-cent coin over the next six months, and businesses have been asked to return pennies to be melted down.

We thought it was a joke too, but apparently the Great White North is serious:

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