A new penny, but why?

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Originally Posted by StcChief

the issue is still the wierd add on sales tax rates city/county etc charge that cause price to leave penny needed.... Price your product, include your tax,state etc... to give at wholde .05 increment and no problem... until then....pennies needed.

Why? You could make the same arguement for .001 dollars, .0001 dollars, etc. Except those values are so monetarily small that its irrelevant? Well, same for the penny.