US man pays tax bill using five wheelbarrows of coins

I was about to repeat the old story that (in the US) pennies are not legal tender in amounts over 25 cents, but it turns out that since 1965, pennies are legal tender in any quantity. However, payees are not obliged to accept them; for instance, municipal bus lines can refuse to accept fare payments in pennies. [1][2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;money&#x2F;pennies.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;money&#x2F;pennies.asp</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treasury.gov&#x2F;resource-center&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;Currency&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;legal-tender.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treasury.gov&#x2F;resource-center&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;Currency&#x2F;Pages...</a>

This guy should have went down to the DMV to get his questions answered. He wasted more time going through all this mess.<p><i>Being self employed, I hardly have time to sleep, much less make a trip to my local DMV just to ask a &quot;30 second question&quot; so I tried to call my &quot;local&quot; DMV office by calling calling the only phone number listed on the internet for my local DMV. </i>

When you make the government work for their share of your share... like a boss! ;)

Has been done (tried) before: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com&#x2F;th&#x2F;read&#x2F;LITHUANIA&#x2F;1999-09&#x2F;0936228834" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com&#x2F;th&#x2F;read&#x2F;LITHUANIA&#x2F;1999...</a> , visual: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;new2.fjcdn.com&#x2F;comments&#x2F;I+_7ffbead1aa9217ad05eb5487c4c8f75f.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;new2.fjcdn.com&#x2F;comments&#x2F;I+_7ffbead1aa9217ad05eb5487c4...</a>

If you play stupid games you will win stupid prizes

This seems to be a statement on the stupidity of still using pennies in 2017, more so than the point he was actually trying to make.

Take <i>that</i> cashless society advocates!<p>Wait...

Not legal tender in Australia. They could just refuse to accept it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Legal_tender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Legal_tender</a>

Who has time for that?

&gt; Nick Stafford&#x27;s coin payment required 11 people who were hired to break open the paper rolls of the coins, taking four hours.<p>So you are telling me this &#x27;Businessman&#x27; wasted 11 peeps x 4 hours x 10$ min wage = $440, to &#x27;make a statement&#x27; to IRS and pay his $400 tax bill with pennies &#x2F; coins?!<p>What kind of a businessman does that? What a waste of man power.