V 0.1
Title Just my two cents
Validity: no pennies (chose 343.1)
The Issue After an unexpectedly high profile case involving a destitute @@MAN@@ unable to pay a .04 @@CURRENCY@@ fine - despite an estate consisting of exactly four now-out-of-mint .01 @@CURRENCY@@ coins - public interest in reinstating the smallest physical unit of currency has been reinvigorated.
Option 1 “It just makes no gosh darn sense,” sobs the gentleman in question, @@RANDOMNAME_1@@, who happens to be a developmental economist. “I have four cents, the fine is four cents let me pay, please! The cent should be reinstated as legal tender; we poor need it!”
Effect @@CURRENCY@@ denominations are seasonal
Option 2 “Why stop at 1/100th of a @@CURRENCY@@?” intones slightly insane microeconomist @@RANDOMNAME_2@@. “Why not a thousandth, a hundred thousandth! We need coinage for every conceivable denomination in order to make our financial system as accurate as possible! We need haypennies, pieces of eight, short and long bits, quarter-farthings, and-”
Effect backers of currency reform break under the strain of increasingly small micro-denominations
Option 3 “RIDICULOUS!” Shouts noted macroeconomist @@RANDONNAME_3@@. “We need to keep the cent gone, and do away with the next two smallest denominations as well! In fact, why have divisions less than a whole @@CURRENCY@@ anyway? All transactions should be rounded to the nearest integer, or maybe the nearest ten...”
Effect inflation is on the rise as single gumball costs a full @@CURRENCY@@
