As seen at my local grocery store this morning at every check-out...

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65. You need to educate yourself as well. SNAP does not allow rounding up or down and thus the poor using cash

who now don't even have SNAP are impacted on each individual cash transaction.

"No net effect on anyone?"
OMG. Given tariffs, loss of SNAP, inflation, increased homelessness, and unemployment, can you not EVEN bring it within you to imagine those who ARE impacted--who HAVE to pay cash--often from donations? It isn't just the nickel; it is EVERY transaction, and on top of tariffs, loss of SNAP benefits, inflation, and depleted food banks. I know, as I have been helping my local food banks with donations from the community for years. They are facing shutting their doors at least a couple of days/week to try to catch up and some may be unrecoverable.

Do some here have zero understanding of what is going on with the most vulnerable among us? Not to mention the state programs to try to help, being decimated by Federal Anti-DEI policies. See the article I linked here, and please give it some consideration:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100220747038Y

On the long term, does ending the penny make a major difference? No. But the acute effects now are significant. And probably illegal to round up, given SNAP legal policies. But that is just another thing YOU don't appear to know (or care?)